Notes bibliogr. en fin d'articles. Index

Introduction: an architecture for the caliph and the poor / Stephane Pradines
1. Adobe as an Islamic Standard: Vernacular Cosmopolitics / Rolando Melo da Rosa
2. The Great Mosque of Timbuktu: Seven Centuries of Earthen Architecture / Bertrand Poissonnier
3. The Periphery Walls of Sijilmasa, a Medieval Islamic City in Morocco: Contribution to the Identification of Typological and Functional Variability of the Pise Technique / Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Elarbi Erbati, Romain Mensan and Axel Daussy
4. Draa Valley: Tighremt and Igherm, Morocco / Marinella Arena and Paola Raffa
5. The Use of Earth in the Construction of the Q?ur in Southeastern Algeria / Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya
6. Identity and Architecture: The Fatimid Walls in Cairo / Stephane Pradines
7. Mud Brick Architecture in Ḥaḍramawt-Yemen under the Qu?aiti and Kathiri Sultanates / Christian Darles
8. Building on the Shoreline: Insights into the Use of Earth in the Architecture of the Late 18th and 19th Centuries in Qatar / Moritz Kinzel
9. Residential Compounds: Earthen Architecture in the Central Desert of Iran / Atri Hatef Naiemi
10. Traditions of Monumental Decoration in the Earthen Architecture of Early Islamic Central Asia / Paul D. Wordsworth
11. Ottoman Earth Architecture in Buda (1541-1686) / Adrienn Papp
12. Between Tradition and Modernity: Building with Earth in a Contemporary City / Elizabeth Golden

This edited volume follows the panel "Earth in Islamic Architecture" organised for the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Ankara, on the 19th of August 2014. Earthen architecture is well-known among archaeologists and anthropologists whose work extends from Central Asia to Spain, including Africa. However, little collective attention has been paid to earthen architecture within Muslim cultures. This book endeavours to share knowledge and methods of different disciplines such as history, anthropology, archaeology and architecture. Its objective is to establish a link between historical and archaeological studies given that Muslim cultures cannot be dissociated from social history