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Ghanbari, Javid. "An Investigation into Architectural Creolization of West African Vernacular Mosques." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 8, no. 9 (2021): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v8i9.2874.

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In investigating the influence of religious thoughts on architecture, much attention has been given to divine world-wide religions by the researchers, while indigenous religions have to a great extent been neglected. Ancient tribes in different parts of the world, have, on the basis of their cosmology, shaped beliefs which reflect on their architecture, especially on their sacred buildings. Regarding the Dogons-a well-known and a dominant tribe in West Africa- their Gods, cosmology and beliefs have led to the formation of settlements comprising houses, temples and other types of buildings in accordance with their religious thoughts while also being in harmony with nature. Up on the expansion of Islam throughout Africa, especially West Africa, vernacular mosques are shaped gradually beside shrines making a typology of Islamic architecture which has traces of both Dogon and Islamic architecture within it; While the influence of natural materials and indigenous building techniques should not be neglected. Taking a descriptive-deductive analysis approach, this paper will search for the architectural creolization process and will eventually conclude that West African vernacular mosques inherit their formal and spatial features mostly from Dogon house and pioneer mosques in Medina and their physical features, elements and exterior decorations from Dogon temples.
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Anisa, Anisa. "VERNAKULARITAS ARSITEKTUR PENINGGALAN PERADABAN ISLAM." NALARs 20, no. 2 (2021): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.24853/nalars.20.2.137-146.

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ABSTRAK. Peninggalan dari sebuah peradaban dapat dilihat dari karya yang ditinggalkan. Arsitektur merupakan salah satu wujud karya yang dapat digunakan untuk melihat dan menelusuri peninggalan dari sebuah peradaban. Peninggalan peradaban di satu wilayah dengan wilayah lain akan dipengaruhi oleh kondisi lingkungan setempat. Hal inilah latar belakang pentingnya dilakukan penelitian berkaitan dengan vernakularitas arsitektur. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yang bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi, mendeskripsikan dan memahami vernakularitas peninggalan peradaban Islam. Metode yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan pengambilan data dilakukan secara purposif sampling. Alat analisis pada penelitian ini adalah aspek vernakularitas yang dikemukakan oleh Mentayani (2017). Aspek vernakularitas dapat dilihat dari 3 hal yaitu aspek teknis, aspek budaya, dan aspek lingkungan yang ketiganya bisa dibahas secara bersamaan karena saling terkait pada ranah unsur dan abstrak. Kesimpulan yang didapatkan dari penelitian ini adalah : (1) vernakularitas pada arsitektur peradaban Islam dapat dilihat pada bentuk massa dan denah bangunan, yang tidak selalu mengikuti bentuk awal (tipologi) peninggalan peradaban Islam yaitu hypostyle; (2) vernakularitas ditunjukkan pada penggunaan material setempat dengan teknologi setempat, misalnya di Afrika Barat menggunakan bata tanah liat yang dikeringkan tanpa dibakar dan penguat dinding dari batang kayu. Kata kunci: vernakularitas, arsitektur, peninggalan peradaban Islam ABSTRACT. The legacy of a civilization can be seen from the work left behind. Architecture is a form of work that can be used to view and trace the relics of a civilization. The legacy of civilization from one region to another will be influenced by local environmental conditions. This is the background of the importance of conducting research related to architectural vernacularity. This research is a research that aims to identify, describe and understand the vernacularity of Islamic civilization heritage. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method with data collection carried out by purposive sampling. The analytical tool in this study is the aspect of vernacularity proposed by Mentayani (2017). Aspects of vernacularity can be seen from 3 things, namely technical aspects, cultural aspects, and environmental aspects, all three of which can be discussed simultaneously because they are interrelated in the elemental and abstract realms. The conclusions obtained from this study are: (1) vernacularity in Islamic civilization architecture can be seen in the shape of the mass and building plans, which do not always follow the initial form (typology) of Islamic civilization heritage, namely hypostyle; (2) vernacularity is shown in the use of local materials with local technology, for example in West Africa using clay bricks that are dried without being burned and wall reinforcement from logs. Keywords: vernacularity, architecture, heritage of Islamic civilization
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Akasoy, Anna. "CONVIVENCIA AND ITS DISCONTENTS: INTERFAITH LIFE IN AL-ANDALUS." International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, no. 3 (2010): 489–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743810000516.

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Historians of Europe often declare that Spain is “different.” This distinctiveness of the Iberian peninsula has many faces and is frequently seen as rooted in its Islamic past. In the field of Islamic history, too, al-Andalus is somewhat different. It has its own specialists, research traditions, controversies, and trends. One of the salient features of historical studies of al-Andalus as well as of its popular image is the great interest in its interreligious dimension. In 2002, María Rosa Menocal published The Ornament of the World, one of the rare books on Islamic history written by an academic that enjoyed and still enjoys a tremendous popularity among nonspecialist readers. The book surveys intersections of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian elite culture, mostly in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin literature and in architecture, from the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Menocal presents the religious diversity commonly referred to as convivencia as one of the defining features of Andalusi intellectual and artistic productivity. She also argues that the narrow-minded forces that brought about its end were external, pointing to the Almoravids and Almohads from North Africa and Christians from north of the peninsula as responsible. The book's subtitle, How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, conjures the community of Abrahamic faiths. It reflects the optimism of those who identify in Andalusi history a model for a constructive relationship between “Islam” and “the West” that in the age of the “war on terror” many are desperate to find.
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Mark, Peter. "“Portuguese” Architecture and Luso-African Identity in Senegambia and Guinea, 1730–1890." History in Africa 23 (January 1996): 179–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171940.

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Along the West African coast and in the immediate hinterland from the Gambia River to Sierra Leone in the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, a region of extensive long-distance trade, the buildings people lived in, as well as the physical layout of their communities, served as important elements in the articulation of their cultural identity. At the same time, architecture reflected contact between the various populations of the region. These groups included a small number of Portuguese and a somewhat larger population of several thousand Luso-Africans, whose commercial role as traders, declining by the late eighteenth century, was limited essentially to the navigable lower reaches of coastal rivers and waterways.These Luso-Africans, faced by Europeans who contested their efforts to define themselves as a group, were gradually marginalized and ultimately subsumed into the neighboring coastal populations, leaving only traces of their distinctive culture. Among the elements that comprised the Luso-African cultural legacy were houses built in “Portuguese” style: rectangular structures with whitewashed exteriors and a vestibule or a porch. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, these houses helped to define the Luso-African community.The local African populations of West Atlantic-speakers (Floups, Bagnuns, Bijogos, and Papels) and, further down the coast, Susus, Temnes and Bulloms, were for the most part organized into small-scale, decentralized societies. Mande-speaking peoples inhabited the small states of the lower Gambia and the more important state of Kaabu in Guinea-Bissau; they, together with ‘juula’ merchants, comprised the western outriders of the Mande diaspora. Further east, in the newly-established Islamic state of Fuuta Jaloo (Futa Jalon), lived the Fulbe.
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AJbarzinji, Zaid. "Fifth Harvard University Forum Islamic Finance." American Journal of Islam and Society 19, no. 3 (2002): 156–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v19i3.1937.

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Each year, the Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program (HIFIP) of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies organizes this forum. This year's forum had an international flavor, thanks to participants from Malaysia, South Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Participants were mainly finance industry representatives from the Islamic Development Bank, the Kuwait Finance House, HSBC Amanah Finance, the Dow Jones Islamic Index, Bank Indonesia, Freddie Mac, and others. In addition, several experts in Islamic economics and finance, such as Monzer Kahf, M. Nejatullah Siddiqi, Nizam Yaquby, and Frank E. Vogel participated. Many other participants sought to educate themselves about the principles of Islamic finance and the availability of lslamically approved financial products. Overall, the forum was more of an opportunity for those interested in Islamic finance to meet each other, network, and present some of their latest lslamically approved financial instruments and contracts. The forum fea­tured a few research papers and many case studies. Most presentations and panel discussions focused on current and past experiences in the Islamic finance industry, challenges facing the development of new financial instru­ments, effective marketing and delivery of products to end-users, and areas where applying jjtihad is most needed and promising. Participants also dis­cussed the need to develop relevant financial institutions to strengthen the stability and perfonnance of Islamic financial service providers ( e.g., man­aging liquidity and risk). Thomas Mullins, HIFIP's executive director, welcomed the guests. He stressed the Islamic finance industry's important role in creating a dialogue between I slam and the West - a role made especially relevant after Septem­ber 11. Forum chairperson Samuel Hayes, Jacob Schiff Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, used his opening remarks to commend the industry on its many accomplishments during the past decade and outlined areas for improvement. In his introduction, Saif Shah Mohammed, presi­dent of the Harvard Islamic Society, suggested that the industry should prer vide relevant services to students, such as Shari'ah-compliant educational loans and young professional programs. Ahmad Mohamed Ali, president of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), delivered the keynote address: "The Emerging Islamic Financial Architecture: The Way Ahead." He discussed the infrastructure required to strengthen the Islamic financial industry, which is in a process of evolution. Some recent major initiatives include the Accounting and Auditing Organ­ization for Islamic Financial Institutions, the Islamic Financial Services Organization, an international Islamic financial market with a liquidity management center, and an Islamic rating agency. Currently, there are ...
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Sacco, Viva, Veronica Testolini, José Maria Martin Civantos, and Peter M. Day. "Islamic Ceramics and Rural Economy in the Trapani Mountains during the 11th century." Journal of Islamic Archaeology 7, no. 1 (2020): 39–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jia.18273.

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Located in the Trapani Mountains of North-West Sicily, the hilltop site of Pizzo Monaco hasformed the focus of systematic excavation and an innovative, integrated study of the totalceramic assemblage, as part of the MEMOLA FP7 project. The date, provenance and productiontechnology of the varied types of pottery are investigated by macroscopic, morphological anddecorative analysis, in combination with petrography and scanning electron microscopy in orderto assess social, technological and economic ties of this rural site and its environs with the earlyIslamic capital of Sicily at Palermo, the wider island and North Africa. Local production of cookingvessels is compared with glazed and plain storage pottery, serving and consumption vesselsfrom Palermo, in a region where the new relationship between coastal centre and nearby mountaineconomies was being forged. Correlation of the properties of the pottery assemblage withthe unusual architecture suggests the storage of a repeated ceramic set, perhaps on a householdbasis, in a site which may be a fortified storage facility, rather than sustaining more permanentoccupation. The typological study provides new information on the range of ceramics circulatingin Sicily during the mid-11th century CE, revealing the full spectrum of ceramics consumedat this time. This approach contrasts with work that privileges a view of simple transmissionof glazing technologies across the Islamic Mediterranean. Indeed a comparison of productionsequences in the crafting of similar glazed bowls at Palermo demonstrates the co-existence ofdifferent communities of practice and cautions against over-simplified reconstructions of thetransmission of glazing technologies in the early medieval Mediterranean. The range of potteryavailable from a variety of sources highlights the consumption choices made by these communitiesin the medieval period.
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McClary, Richard Piran. "Jonathan M. Bloom: Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800. 320 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020. £50. ISBN 978 030021870 1." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 83, no. 3 (2020): 534–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x20002797.

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العظم, عليا. "عروض مختصرة". الفكر الإسلامي المعاصر (إسلامية المعرفة سابقا) 22, № 87 (2017): 191–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/citj.v22i87.2525.

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 علاقة علم أصول الفقه بعلم الكلام، محمد بن علي الجيلاني الشتيوي، بيروت: مكتبة حسن العصرية للطباعة والنشر والتوزيع، 2017م، 768 صفحة.
 الترجمة وجماليات التلقي - المبادلات الفكرية والثقافية، حفناوي بعلي، عمّان: دروب ثقافية للنشر والتوزيع، 2017م، 320 صفحة.
 مناهج تحليل الخطاب القرآني في الفكر العربي المعاصر، محمد علواش، دمشق: صفحات للدراسات والنشر، 2017م، 384 صفحة.
 القيم السياسية العالمية في الخطاب القرآني – مدخل منهاجي لدراسة العلاقات الدولية، مصطفى جابر العلواني، فرجينيا: المعهد العالمي للفكر الإسلامي، 2015م، 485 صفحة.
 النهضة العربية الإسلامية في العصور الوسطى – دراسات في الإسهامات والانتكاسات، أشرف صالح محمد سيد، دمشق: صفحات للدراسة والنشر، 2017م، 170 صفحة.
 قراءات في كتب الحداثة والإسلام السياسي، سعيد عبيد، دمشق: صفحات للدراسات والنشر، 2017م، 144 صفحة.
 مقدمة في تدريس التفكير، محمود محمد غانم، قطر: دار الثقافة للنشر والتوزيع، 2017م، 448 صفحة.
 أنماط القيم التربوية الأسرية، نسيسة فاطمة الزهراء، عمان: دار الأيام للنشر والتوزيع، 2017م، 216 صفحة.
 نحو نظرية إدارية إسلامية متكاملة، حسين مطر حسن السلع، ألمانيا: نور للنشر، 2017م، 292 صفحة.
 قضايا وتجليات في رسائل النور، مأمون فريز جرار، القاهرة: دار سولزر للنشر، 2015، 216 صفحة.
 الطريق النّوري للترقي والسير إلى الله عند بديع الزمان النورسي، فيروز صالح عثمان، ألمانيا: نور للنشر، 2016، 52 صفحة.
 وحدة الإيقاع الكوني - الموسيقا الكونية، جميل حسن، اللاذقية: دار الحوار للنشر والتوزيع، 2015، 176 صفحة.
 Three Treatises on the I'jaz of the Qur'an (Great Books of Islamic Civilization), byMuhammad Khalaf-Allah Ahmad (Author), Muhammad Zaghlul Sallam (Author), Issaa J. Boullata (Translator) Garnet Publishing , 2015, 174 pages.
 Education In Creation: The Tree of Knowledge, Nuurah Amatullah Muhammad, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015, 150 pages.
 Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa, byOusmane Oumar Kane, Harvard University Press , 2016, 296 pages
 Muslims in the Western Imagination, by Sophia Rose Arjana,, Oxford University Press, 2015, 280 pages
 Philosophies of Islamic Education: Historical Perspectives and Emerging Discourses, by Mujadad Zaman, Nadeem A. Memon , Routledge Research in Religion and Education, 2016, 270 pages.
 The Origins of Visual Culture in the Islamic World: Aesthetics, Art and Architecture in Early Islam, by Mohammed Hamdouni Alami, Library of Middle East History,2015 , 256 pages
 
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Sa'Ad, Tukur. "Review: African Spaces: Design for Living in Upper Volta by Jean-Paul Bourdier, Trinh T. Minh-Ha; Hausa Architecture by J. C. Moughtin; Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa by Labelle Prussin; Traditional Housing in African Cities: A Comparative Study of Housing in Zaria, Ibadan and Marrakech by Friedrich W. Schwerdtfeger." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 46, no. 4 (1987): 434–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/990294.

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Lovejoy, Paul E., and Labelle Prussin. "Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 1 (1987): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219317.

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Sherali, Hafiz-Ur-Rehman. "The architectural character of Islamic institutions in the West." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41322.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.<br>Title as it appears in the June 1991 M.I.T. Graduate List: The architectural culture of Islamic institutions in the West.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-242).<br>This thesis stems from an awareness, reinforced by personal design experience, of a dilemma which exists about character, in terms of appropriateness of and the representation of Islam, in the Institutions built for Muslim immigrants in the West. While architects building in Islamic nations are fighting their own battles against modernism in architecture in order to maintain continuity within the context of their traditional and contemporary cities, architects building for Muslim communities overseas are searching for appropriate images for their Institutions in cultures which historically have been unaware of the true nature of Islamic civilizations in the world. This study attempts to understand the complexities involved in designing for such building programs, which include mediating between the clients' insistence on the re-creation of the architectural traditions which have been left behind, and the immediate urbanistic, symbolic, social and political forces of the contexts which weave and knit the buildings in their surroundings. Within the limited scope of this endeavor, emphasis is placed on consideration of the architectural character of these religious institutions. However, one cannot completely ignore other aspects of the histories of these buildings, which illustrate the process of their making. These buildings are often loaded with self-conscious and fully acknowledged historical references, taken from the so called generic tradition of 'Islamic Architecture', and are collaged to impress upon the believer or non-believer alike, with recognizable imagery and form, the religious and ideological associations of their functions. However, this method of orchestrating often leaves an unstable territory, within which a critical evaluation of them reveals the inherent contradictions. The theoretical discourse of the thesis will deal with, on one hand, a wide range of general issues, such as the image of Islam in the eyes of the West, the human need for continuity and the use of typology in architecture, and on other hand, the distillation of arguments on specific topics such as the iconography of Islamic architecture and the various interpretations put forward to explain its extensive use of geometry and ornament. The case studies of the Friday Mosques in London and Rome and the Jamatkhanas in London and Burnaby extend and demonstrate the above dialogue with the past and will form the basis of formulation of design principles which might be utilized in future building programs.<br>by Hafiz-Ur-Rehman Sherali.<br>M.S.
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Hirsch, Phoebe. "Islamic architecture in the Cape South Africa, 1794-2013." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2016. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23644/.

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Niezen, Ronald Wesley. "Diverse styles of Islamic reform among the Songhay of eastern Mali." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/227576.

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The general aim of the dissertation is to contribute to an understanding of Islamic reform in West Africa. To this end fieldwork was conducted among the Songhay of eastern Mali, a people who experienced a sudden rise in the popularity of Islamic reform in the early 1970's which divided many communities along religious lines. The term 'Wahhabiyya', often used to describe a trend in religious reform in West Africa which is inspired largely by the Saudi Arabian model of puritan Islam, is accepted by most members of this Songhay movement. In the region of Gao, in which this locally-based Wahhabi movement emerged, the situation is one in which Islamic reform among the village population is more 'radical' and uncompromising than among town dwellers. The central concerns of the dissertation are to compare the social backgrounds and religious orientations of 'moderates' and 'radicals' and, in particular, to account for the strong appeal of Islamic reform among the villagers. In order to assess the impact of religious reform attention is paid throughout the dissertation to the social and religious life of the non-reformist population. In tracing the background of the topic it was necessary to explore the history of the Songhay with specific reference to the introduction of Islam and its place in the 'traditional' religious complex as well as changes in the family, the economy and the politicaltostructure which have occurred since the advent of French colonization. These issues are set within a general comparison of the reformist and traditionalist communities which includes consideration of the way Islam is observed, the place of leadership and organization, and the way Islamic education is implemented.
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Berndt, Jeremy. "Usman dan Fodio's Ifḥām al-munkirīn: modes of religious authority in Islamic West Africa". Thesis, Boston University, 1998. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27595.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>2031-01-02
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McLean, Diane Lynn. "Indigenous Tswana architecture: with specific reference to the Tshidi Rolong village at Mafikeng." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007600.

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This essay is divided roughly into two main sections; in the first I have discussed the Tswana as a whole, their environment, their origins and their more recent history. In addition to this, I have tried to give a clear picture of their tribal political structure and economic activities, as well as their domestic activities, all of which are integrally linked to the kind of house form adopted by the Tswana. The last, and most important, part of the first section is a presentation of some of the earliest written descriptions of Tswana dwellings made by the first white travellers to enter Tswana territory. The second section takes the form of a presentation of findings observed during the course of personal field research undertaken in the Tshidi-Rolong village outside Mafikeng. This research was done by means of a number of questionnaires drawn up by myself and filled in on the spot with information supplied by house owners and sometimes the builders themselves. This survey was carried out largely at random, with several of the houses chosen arbitrarily because of an interesting feature which set them apart from other dwellings. This written information is backed up by a large bulk of visual information in the form of photographs taken personally, both of the dwellings in general, and of details of the houses. Although this essay may appear to be rather fragmented, my aim is to give a graphic account of changes in Tswana dwellings by comparing features of contemporary dwellings with those observed in the early nineteenth century. The fact that among the Tswana , the building style of one sub-tribe may vary slightly from that of another subtribe, has not affected my study to any large extent , since I was fortunate enough to have done my field research among a branch of one of the original groups, namely the Rolong, whose houses, along with those of the Tlhaping, were the first to be documented. Therefore, most of the differences which have occurred between the dwellings of the contemporary Tshidi-Rolong and those from the early nineteenth century are a direct result of the process of westernisation.
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Solieman, Khalifa Ali 1950. "M'zab community, Algeria, North Africa: Its planning and architectural aspects--past, present, and future." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291976.

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This thesis is a report of a study of some aspects of the architecture and urban planning of the M'zab Valley communities of southern Algeria, North Africa. The interrelation of physical planning and religious/social structures of the communities of the M'zab Valley are explored. This study was concerned with the following questions: (1) What are the various environmental factors that influence the design values of the M'zabites? (2) To what extent is the distinctive style of architecture in the M'zab due to religion: the Ibadi heritage or Islam in general? (3) How has the M'zab social structure responded to outside influences in recent years? (4) What is the present trend of the M'zab urban communities in architecture and planning?
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Durrani, Nadia. "The Tihamah coastal plain of South West Arabia in its regional context : c. 6000 BC - AD 600." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368203.

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McConville, Jennifer R. "Assessing sustainable approaches to sanitation planning and implementation in West Africa." Licentiate thesis, Stockholm : Mark- och vattenteknik, Land and Water Resource Engineering, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4767.

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Nixon, Sam Robert. "The archaeology of Early Islamic Trans-Saharan trading towns in West Africa : a comparative view and progressive methodology from the entrepot of Essouk-Tadmekka." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444469/.

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This thesis reassesses the Early Islamic Trans-Saharan Trade primarily via archaeological data from the northern Sahel of West Africa. Specifically, it focuses on the trading entrepots which developed on the southern fringes of the Sahara during the Early Islamic period. This research was motivated by the recognition that historical sources, while offering useful insights into Trans-Saharan commerce, are unable to answer certain key questions due to inherent limitations in source material. Additionally, although previous archaeology at the entrepot sites has provided useful data, its analytical application has been limited. This is largely because most relevant archaeological work was done 30 or more years ago and was technologically or methodologically limited in aspects of artifactual analysis and dating. It was therefore decided that our understanding of entrepot archaeology would be best served by a new field project. Accordingly, excavation and surface collection was undertaken at the previously untested entrepot site of Essouk-Tadmekka in northern Mali. The results from Essouk provide a new perspective on the Early Islamic Trans-Saharan Trade process and make the following important contributions to research on Trans-Saharan commerce: 1) new evidence that large-scale trade was earlier than traditionally believed (c. 750-950AD) as well as fresh data on the nature of the 10th/early 11th century 'trade boom' 2) greater insight into the changing socio-economic history of the entrepot system, demonstrating specifically that the Almoravid era (c. 1050-1140AD) inaugurated a profound shift in the organization of trade, and also showing how there was a final alteration and disruption of the 'Essouk' system by the arrival of new Berber groups (c. 1300-1400AD) 3) better understanding of the movement of Trans-Saharan commodities and their archaeological correlates, including new evidence relevant to the gold trade (coin moulds) and new ways of interpreting the flow of Trans-Saharan Trade (e.g. via in-depth analyses of notionally 'local' ceramic traditions).
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Pettey, Ryan Patrick. "Hartbeespoortdam butterfly conservancy an ecological splurge /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05282004-085314.

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Books on the topic "Islamic architecture – Africa, West"

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Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture., ed. Hatumere: Islamic design in West Africa. University of California Press, 1986.

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Ruiz, Beatriz Hilda Grand. Africa y su arquitectura islámica. Clepsidra, 1998.

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Trinh, T. Minh-Ha (Thi Minh-Ha), 1952-, ed. Vernacular architecture of West Africa: A world in dwelling. Routledge, 2011.

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Euro Islam architecture: New mosques in the West. SUN, 2008.

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Women and Islamic revival in a West African town. Indiana University Press, 2009.

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Jakobsen, Trine Paludan. The new "knowers" of West Africa: Muslims, education, and social change : a commentated bibliography. Centre for Development Research, 1998.

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Unveiling modernity in 20th century West African Islamic reforms. Brill, 2012.

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Bloom, Jonathan. Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic art and architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt. Yale University Press, 2007.

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Bloom, Jonathan. Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic art and architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt. Yale University Press, 2007.

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E, Creevey Lucy, ed. The heritage of Islam: Women, religion, and politics in West Africa. Lynne Rienner, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Islamic architecture – Africa, West"

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Nixon, Sam. "West Africa: Islamic Archaeology." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1823.

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Nixon, Sam. "West Africa: Islamic Archaeology." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_1823.

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Vernoit, Stephen. "Islamic Art in the West." In A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119069218.ch45.

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Bigon, Liora. "Architecture in French West Africa." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10202-1.

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Bigon, Liora. "Architecture in French West Africa." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer Netherlands, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_10202.

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Leube, Georg. "Islamic Architecture in Pre-colonial Africa." In The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45759-4_16.

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Boyle, Helen N. "Islamic Education in West and Central Africa." In International Handbooks of Religion and Education. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64683-1_36.

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Boyle, Helen N. "Islamic Education in West and Central Africa." In Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53620-0_36-1.

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Bunza, Mukhtar Umar. "Islamic/Muslim Education in Africa: From North to West Africa." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38277-3_6.

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Seck, Diery. "Proposed Architecture for an ECOWAS Common Currency Union." In Private Sector Development in West Africa. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05188-8_1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Islamic architecture – Africa, West"

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Gbatu, Jerroy Nya, and Haiying Li. "The Transformations of Vernacular / Traditional Architecture to Modern Architecture in West Africa, Liberia." In Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Architecture: Heritage, Traditions and Innovations (AHTI 2019). Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/ahti-19.2019.37.

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Xu, Z. C., F. L. Lu, G. Z. Fan, and D. L. Shao. "Deepwater Depositional Architecture and Evolution in the Rio Muni Basin, West Africa." In 76th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2014. EAGE Publications BV, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20141065.

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Villada Paredes, Fernando. "De cerca medieval islámica a frente abaluartado: génesis y evolución del Frente de Tierra de Ceuta." In FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11403.

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From Medieval Islamic Wall to Bastioned Land Front: Genesis and evolution of the Land Front of CeutaCeuta is built on a peninsula at the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. It’s a strategic point for communications between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and between two continents: Europe and Africa. As Ceuta ships rule the Gibraltar Strait in Medieval and Modern Ages, main defensive efforts were tuned of to Land Front. Consequently, in 950 ‘Abd al-Rahman III built a new fence in order to protect the madina reusing Roman and Byzantine fortifications. Although repaired and enlarged by Almohads, Marinids, and Portuguese, these walls and towers protected the Land Front of Ceuta until the sixteenth century. But, at this moment, pirobalistic artillery development had made this defensive device obsolete and a new bastioned front, an early and outstanding example of the new Renaissance ideas for the defense of the cities, was built. Archival documents, cartographic sources, etc., let us follow the main lines of this evolution. Recently, an archaeological research project has added new data on how this evolution, from Medieval to Renaissance fortifications, took place.
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Mahrour, Illili. "To inhabit the twelve i𝛾amawen of Taguelzi: fortified dwellings as alive ruins in the Gourara (Algerian Sahara)". У FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11329.

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In the southwest of the Algerian Sahara, Taguelzi is one of the fortified settlement oases forming the network of the Gourara defensive structures situated on the southern edge of the Ouled Aïssa Hmada. It is a large and long flat limestone area, which borders, from north to south, the west side of the Timimoun sebkha. Despite its position on the periphery of Charouine, one of the Gourara sub-region main human settlement, Taguelzi is exactly situated at the crossroads of ancient caravan routes linking sub-Saharan Africa to the Atlantic shores and the Mediterranean world through both the Messaoura wadi and the shortcut to Figuig in Morocco, across the Great Western Erg. Taguelzi strategic position, on the southern cornice of the Ouled Aïssa hamada facing the north of Moulay Mohemmed Erg, an arm of the Great Western Erg, allows to reach the Aougrout, the main sub region of the Gourara, through the Deldoul sub region in few hours, and eventually from there to get to the Gourara main cities. By using a space anthropological approach based on spatiality vocabulary, we have tried to understand this Saharan settlement formed by twelve distinct defensive inhabited structures and why some of them are considered as “dead ruins” and others as still “alive ruins”. Taguelzi twelve fortified inhabited structures reported through “the spatiality living word” reveals the living space organization complexity at the territory scale and may explain the morphogenesis of those defensive structures which gave birth to troglodyte habitat, to stone defensive towers and double walled fortifications with gardens, wells, water system irrigation and wide-open cemeteries. Today, despite unsuccessful state rehabilitation projects and the fortifications advanced state of ruins after the 2008 devastating floods, the inhabitants still clearly identify and refer to them as the twelve “i𝛾amawen of Taguelzi”.
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Saint-Marcoux, Jean-Francois, and Robert D. Blevins. "Hybrid Riser Tower for Deepwater Drill Centres." In ASME 2007 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2007-29289.

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Hybrid Riser Towers, whether single bore or bundles minimise the riser load on Floating Processing Units and are field proven. Recent work has emphasised the effect of wake instability of parallel risers, and provided guidance for minimum distance between the risers. The paper describes the general architecture of a minimum Hybrid Riser Tower riser production system to be used for a drill centre, and the results of wake interference analysis for single bore HRTs and for a drill centre HRT’s in deepwater West Africa and GOM for turret-moored FPSO’s.
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Tellier, Elizabeth, and Ricky Thethi. "The Evolution of Free Standing Risers." In ASME 2009 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2009-79487.

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Deepwater riser selection is a complex evaluation of technical and commercial project drivers. The free standing hybrid riser (FSHR) has evolved in the last 10 years through major use in West Africa and is now gaining serious consideration in other deepwater provinces. The key benefit of the free standing riser is that the steel riser vertical section is offset from the vessel using flexible jumpers, thereby decoupling the riser from vessel dynamic motion. Early FSHR configuration took the hybrid bundle tower form. The very first free standing riser system, installed in 1988, consisted of the Placid hybrid bundle in the Gulf of Mexico. In the late nineties, a hybrid bundle tower was chosen for the Girassol development in West Africa. Since then, the industry has sanctioned numerous developments using multiple single line freestanding risers. Optimization of the FSHR is continuing with new concepts such as the Grouped SLOR developed to offer the combined benefits of both the bundle and single line multiple arrangements. This paper will describe how the FSHR configuration has evolved to meet increasing industry demands over the past 10 years and will discuss the future of this type of riser system. Increasing applications in ultra deepwater regions, hurricane prone locations and tiebacks to existing payload limited production vessels will be discussed with riser system architecture described including interfaces with the vessel and seabed.
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Quiniou-Ramus, Valérie, Rémi Estival, Pascal Venzac, and Jean-Baptiste Cohuet. "Real-Time Network of Weather and Ocean Stations: Public-Private Partnership on In-Situ Measurements in the Gulf of Guinea." In ASME 2013 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2013-10903.

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Monitoring of meteorological or/and oceanographic conditions is done on many Oil &amp; Gas platforms offshore West and Central Africa (from Nigeria to Angola), but it is often only used in real-time and not necessarily archived on a hard-drive, or it is protected by each company’s IT firewalls thus making it difficult to send the information to the “outer world”. In 2010, TOTAL Oil &amp; Gas Operator launched a project to give remote and public access to this real-time wind, current and also wave or other meteorological / oceanographic (“metocean”) data. The objectives of this initiative were multiple: • Improve weather and ocean hindcasts and forecasts, which will be beneficial to all Oil &amp; Gas operations in Africa, • Help feed a database for future O&amp;G developments; • Enable design checks after ∼1 year of operation; • Serve as a “black box” in case of an incident which could be due to environment; • Help feed or validate ocean and oil spill drift forecast in case of emergency; • Contribute to the international effort of monitoring the oceans in the long term (operational oceanography, climate change, etc.); • Encourage capacity building in Africa by supporting development and maintenance of technical solutions to reach objectives In 2013, with the support of the French Meteorological Office Météo-France, the data from half a dozen platforms offshore Nigeria, Congo and Angola will be available on the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Global Telecommunication System (GTS). This paper will present the type of metocean stations that are part of this network “MODANET”, the IT architecture that was selected to send it out of the Company’s network, the quality control undertaken by Meteo France before sending it to the GTS, and future possible use of the data that are envisaged.
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