Islamic Architecture on the Move: Motion and Modernity

Christiane Gruber is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests span medieval Islamic art to contemporary visual culture. She has authored two books on Islamic texts and images of the Prophet Muhammad's ascension and has edited several volumes on Islamic book arts, ascension texts and images, and visual and material culture.

Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Islamic Architecture on the Move Christiane Gruber Chapter 2: Karbala in Lucknow: An Itinerary of Architectural Mobility Elise Kamleh and Katherine Bartsch Chapter 3: The Mobile Matrix: The Hijaz Railway as Ritual Space and Generator of Space David Simonowitz Chapter 4: Fabricating a New Image: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period Ashley Dimmig Chapter 5: Mobility and Ambivalences: Negotiating Architectural Identities during Khedive Ismail's Reign (1863-79) Marwa M. El-Ashmouni Chapter 6: 'In the Absence of Originals': Replicating the Tilework of Safavid Isfahan for South Kensington Moya Carey Chapter 7: Relocating to Hawai'i: Dwelling with Islamic Art at Doris Duke's Shangri La Olga Bush Chapter 8: The Urban Fabric of Cairo: Khayamiya and the Suradeq Sam Bowker Note on Contributors