Chapter Seven Aural Geometry Poetry, Music, and Architecture in the Arabic Tradition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. Foreword xiii
5. Introduction: Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam 1
6. PART ONE Transregional
7. Chapter One Listening to Islamic Gardens and Landsca 19
8. PART TWO The Ottoman Empire and Turkey
9. Chapter Two A Sound Status among the Ottoman Elite Architectural Patrons of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul Mosques and Their Recitation Programs 37
10. Chapter Three A Concert Platform A Space for a Style in Turkish Music 59
11. Chapter Four Articulating Otherness in the Construction of Alevi-Bektaşi Rituals and Ritual Space in a Transnational Perspective 85
12. PART THREE The Arab World
13. Chapter Five Venerating Cairo’s Saints through Monument and Ritual Islamic Reform and the Rise of the Architext 111
14. Chapter Six Nightingales and Sweet Basil The Cultural Geography of Aleppine Song 146
15. Chapter Seven Aural Geometry Poetry, Music, and Architecture in the Arabic Tradition 166
16. PART FOUR Andalusia and Europe
17. Chapter Eight Tents of Silk and Trees of Light in the Lands of Najd The Aural and the Visual at a Mawlid Celebration in the Alhambra 199
18. hap t e r N in e Aristocratic Residences and the Majlis in Umayyad Córdoba 228
19. Chapter Ten Sounds of Love and Hate Sufi Rap, Ghetto Patrimony, and the Concrete Politics of the French Urban Periphery 255
20. PART FIVE Central and South Asia
21. Chapter Eleven Ideal Form and Meaning in Sufi Shrines of Pakistan A Return to the Spirit 283
22. Chapter Twelve The Social and Sacred Microcosm of the Kiiz Üi Space and Sound in Rituals for the Dead among the Kazakhs of Mongolia 308
23. PART SIX Iran
24. Chapter ThirteenListening to Pictures in Iran 339
25. Chapter Fourteen Of Mirrors and Frames Music, Sound, and Architecture at the Iranian Zūrkhāneh 356
26. REFERENCES 385
27. CONTRIBUTORS 422
28. INDEX 426