- Title
- Islamic environmentalism in the architectural domain: architectural crisis in Islamic countries analysed through the lens of Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Traditionalism
- Creator
- Fardpour, Tohid
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- This study explores one of the essential aspects of the environmental crisis, an architectural crisis in the Islamic world. This subject in various ways impacts many residents in urban areas. To understand this subject this study considers a wide range of aspects. The study claims that for Muslims the subject of an architectural crisis seems to stem from the same source. Moreover, the study bases its hypothesis on the idea that it is possible to treat all available concerns in Islamic countries regarding their built environment in one integrated study. The study employs a naturalistic approach to interpreting phenomena in their natural settings, which means studying a Muslim architectural crisis from a perspective that has a strong connection with the inhabitants’ worldview in these lands, ‘an Islamic perspective’. Considering these concerns, Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s viewpoint and his Traditionalism have been chosen as a lens to look through onto the subject of the architectural crisis. Nasr brings a new perspective to mainstream Islamic Studies; while he never goes beyond the Islamic traditional teachings, he expresses them in more universal and contemporary terms. Thus, the study aims to criticise the totalitarian principles in contemporary Muslim architecture and to establish a framework, from which the issue of architectural crisis is seen from a religious viewpoint in the cosmological and sacred sense, which Nasr presents to us. To address the research question and fulfil the research aim and objectives, in the first stage, the study seeks to consider all relevant studies of and directions towards a Muslim architectural crisis along with understanding Nasr’s Traditionalism. It results in recognising the main problems for Muslims in mainstream architectural works, and a categorisation of Nasr’s philosophy.
- Subject
- Islamic architecture; architectural crisis; Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Traditionalism; contemporary architecture; Islamic environmentalism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1393488
- Identifier
- uon:33550
- Rights
- Copyright 2018 Tohid Fardpour
- Language
- eng
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