1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910416506503321

Autore

Déroche François

Titolo

The Voice and the Quill. The Paths of Canonization of the Quʾrān : Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 2 April 2015 / / François Déroche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Collège de France, 2020

ISBN

2-7226-0543-0

Altri autori (Persone)

DérocheFrançois

HarocheSerge

Soggetti

Religion

History & Archaeology

religion

Quran

Arabic language

codicology

Islam

history of Quran

islamology

manuscripts

paleography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

How can we hope to understand Islam without knowing how its founding text, the Qurʾān, took shape and then crystalized? The discovery of a palimpsest in Sanaa in 1973 confirmed the existence of other recensions of the Qurʾānic text in the first centuries of Islam. Studies of these documents and of the manuscripts of the predominant transmission have made it possible to identify the various strata of texts and the variants that were gradually excluded. This unprecedented approach to the Qurʾān profoundly renews the intellectual and cultural history of the Muslim world.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786318603321

Titolo

The cultural role of architecture : contemporary and historical perspectives / / edited by Paul Emmons, John Hendrix and Jane Lomholt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-135-76543-X

1-283-84404-4

1-135-76536-7

0-203-72377-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EmmonsPaul

HendrixJohn

LomholtJane

Disciplina

720.1/03

720.103

Soggetti

Architecture and society

Architecture - Human factors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Cultural Role of Architecture; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Cultivating Architecture; Part One Architecture as Agent of Recovery: A Testimony to Values; Introduction to Part One; 1 Greek Theatre as an Embodiment of Cultural Meaning; 2 The Restoration of the Hut of Romulus; 3 Il Corridoio Vasariano: A Resplendent Passage to Medici and Vasari's Grandeur; 4 Language Beyond Metaphor: The Structural Symbolism of Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza

5 Villa Albani: Repository of Multiple Narratives6 The Space of Fiction: On the Cultural Relevance of Architecture; 7 Using Old Stuff and Thinking in a New Way: Material Culture, Conservation and Fashion in Architecture; Part Two Architecture as Substance and Sustenance: Cultural Desires and Needs; Introduction to Part Two; 8 De Beata Architectura: Places for Thinking; 9 Sverre Fehn: Materials and Culture;



10 A Persuasive Topology: Alvar Aalto and the Ambience of History; 11 Freiraum: Ideas of Nature and Freedom in the Work of Mies van der Rohe

12 Architectural Poetics in Alvaro Siza's Church of Santa Maria13 The Play of Plans: Le Corbusier's Serious Game of Dominoes; 14 Something out of the "Ordinary"; Part Three A Time of Aspirations: Cultural Understanding of the Roles of Architecture; Introduction to Part Three; 15 The Relevance of Beauty in Architecture; 16 Architectural Creation Between "Culture" and "Civilization"; 17 Architectural Identity Demystified: Visual Voices from the Arab World; 18 The Fiction of the Digital in the Mediated City; 19 The Memory of Ruins and the Ruins of Memory

20 The Conceptual Bearings of the Intercultural Role of Architecture21 Architecture as the Psyche of a Culture; Epilogue: The Necessity of Architecture; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word 'culture' in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It examines the historical role of the cultural in architectural production and expression, looking at meaning and communication, tracing the formations of cultural identities.Chapters written by international academics in history, theory and philosophy of architecture, examine how different modes of representation throughout history have drawn profound meanings from cultural practices and beliefs. These are as diverse as the designs they inspi