{"id":2218,"date":"2022-03-01T00:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2022-03-01T00:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:23:52","slug":"akdc-staff-contribute-to-new-book-on-the-religious-architecture-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2022\/03\/01\/akdc-staff-contribute-to-new-book-on-the-religious-architecture-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"AKDC Staff Contribute to New Book on the Religious Architecture of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2022\/02\/Religious-Architecture-of-Islam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2219\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2022\/02\/Religious-Architecture-of-Islam-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the volume\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2022\/02\/Religious-Architecture-of-Islam-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2022\/02\/Religious-Architecture-of-Islam-813x1024.jpg 813w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2022\/02\/Religious-Architecture-of-Islam-768x968.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2022\/02\/Religious-Architecture-of-Islam-624x786.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2022\/02\/Religious-Architecture-of-Islam.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/6971\">Matt Saba<\/a> (Visual Resources Librarian at AKDC) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/2691\">Michael Toler<\/a> (Archnet Content Manager) have contributed two essays to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brepols.net\/Pages\/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503589350-1\"><em>The Religious Architecture of Islam<\/em><\/a>, an encyclopedic, multi-author study of mosques, madrasas, saints\u2019 shrines, and funerary architecture associated with the religion of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The book aims to be global in scale, and its first volume\u2014published in November 2021\u2014covers Asia and Australia, while a forthcoming volume will cover Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The two-volume series is published by Brepols and edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/40\">Hasan-Uddin Khan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/9796\">Kathryn Moore<\/a>. Matt contributed an essay on funerary architecture in Iraq under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archnet.org\/collections\/2352\">Abbasids<\/a> and their successor states; Michael and Matt collaborated on an article treating the subject of archives and archival documents in the study of Islamic religious architecture. Images of historic and contemporary architecture from <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/collections\/\">AKDC\u2019s archival collections<\/a> illustrate both essays and feature in other articles in the volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Saba (Visual Resources Librarian at AKDC) and Michael Toler (Archnet Content Manager) have contributed two essays to The Religious Architecture of Islam, an encyclopedic, multi-author study of mosques, madrasas, saints\u2019 shrines, and funerary architecture associated with the religion of Islam. The book aims to be global in scale, and its first volume\u2014published in November 2021\u2014covers Asia and Australia, while a forthcoming volume will cover Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The two-volume series is published by Brepols and edited by Hasan-Uddin Khan and Kathryn Moore. Matt contributed an essay on funerary architecture in Iraq under the Abbasids and their successor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[268,276],"tags":[292,426,431,480],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-akdc-news","category-staff-news","tag-aga-khan-documentation-center","tag-matt-saba","tag-michael-toler","tag-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}