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A comparative Study of Henri Stierlin's Phenomenological View with Oleg Grabar's Historicism View in the Reading of Islamic Architecture
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Mehrab Ardiani   , Nayer Tahoori * , Azadeh Shahcheraghi |
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Phenomenology and historicism are among the most important intellectual currents that have studied and examined Islamic architecture. Each of these intellectual currents, although there are some similarities between them, expresses its findings in the field of Islamic architecture from its own methodological perspective. Paying attention to the differences of opinion of these views, while there are some commonalities, raises the questions: What principles are each of these methods based on in the reading of Islamic architecture, and what are the differences and commonalities of their opinions in explaining Islamic architecture? The present study, by comparative study of the opinions of renowned theorists such as Henri Stierlin (phenomenologist) and Oleg Grabar (Historicalist), seeks to find an appropriate answer to these questions: What are the differences and similarities in the opinions of Henri Stierlin and Oleg Grabar in reading of the Islamic architecture? Also, what definition of Islamic architecture has been presented by each of these two perspectives? the research findings indicate that despite the fact that Grabar pays attention to the Qur'an and the tradition of the Prophet and mentions Islam and its effects as a cultural component along with historical, political, and regional components, but from his point of view, Islamic architecture is an architecture that has no connection with the religion of Islam. While Stierlin, with a semantic and transhistorical view, considers Islamic architecture derived from the essence and teachings of Islam, and by referring to the verses of the Holy Quran, he considers the origin and source of most of the physical components of the mosque to be the heavenly world. In his opinion, the building of the mosque and its constituent elements are a symbolic image of the Garden of Paradise that the Quran has promised to the believers. The present research is qualitative and based on a descriptive-analytical method with a comparative approach to the views of Henri Stierlin (phenomenologist) and Oleg Grabar (Historicalist) on Islamic architecture.
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| Keywords: Islamic architecture, Oleg Grabar, Henri Stierlin, historicism, phenomenology |
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