From the gardens of the<i>Qur'an</i>to the “gardens” of Lahore

Wescoat, James L.

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“…A series of volumes on the history of cartography (Harley and Woodward, 1994;Woodward and Lewis, 1992; bears this out. Examples of other recent works include a series of essays that attempt to illustrate how the values embedded in various religions are projected into the natural world, and impact the ways landscape gardens are shaped (Pan, 1995;Sinha, 1995b;Wescoat, 1995). Such works represent a thread of continuity with past writings.…”

Section: Poetics Of Placementioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity

Kong

2001

Progress in Human Geography

412

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This article reviews geographical research on religion in the 1990s, and highlights work from neighbouring disciplines where relevant. Contrary to views that the field is incoherent, I suggest that much of the literature pays attention to several key themes, particularly, the politics and poetics of religious place, identity and community. I illustrate the key issues, arguments and conceptualizations in these areas, and suggest various ways forward. These ‘new’ geographies emphasize different sites of religious practice beyond the ‘officially sacred’; different sensuous sacred geographies; different religions in different historical and place-specific contexts; different geographical scales of analysis; different constitutions of population and their experience of and effect on religious place, identity and community; different dialectics (sociospatial, public-private, politics-poetics); and different moralities.

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Section: Poetics Of Placementioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity

Kong

2001

Progress in Human Geography

412

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“…Isfahan. The 17th century Shah Abbas I's plan for the city and gardens of Isfahan is one of the most emblematic examples of a composed chahár-bágh layout (Welch, 1974;Hunar, 1976). Already in the 11th century AD, this city had been recognized as one of the richest and densest Persian agglomerations according to Naser Khosrow's journey accounts (Hunar, 1976).…”

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“…Already in the 11th century AD, this city had been recognized as one of the richest and densest Persian agglomerations according to Naser Khosrow's journey accounts (Hunar, 1976). Its strategic position within the Silk route made it an important national trade point, besides being in a fertile plain with good water sourcesthe Zayendeh river -and a qanat that extracted water from the mountains (Welch, 1974;Hunar, 1976).…”

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“…This already important city was established as the capital of the Persian empire in 1597 by Shah Abbas I (1587-1629) (Welch, 1974), who envisaged a garden extension and a new palatial complex anchored on the old city through the Naqsh-i Jahan Square with its four hallmarks: the main Masjid-i Shah public mosque, the Imperial Bazaar, the Ali Qapu Palace and the royal private Masjid-i Shaykh Lutf Allah mosque (Walcher, 1998). This new city addition and palatial complex elevated the city's image to its new position and the development of its great plan later became the footprint of the contemporary city itself (Shankland, 1967).…”

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The fractal dimension of Islamic and Persian four-folding gardens

Patuano

Lima

2021

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Since Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010) coined the term “fractal” in 1975, mathematical theories of fractal geometry have deeply influenced the fields of landscape perception, architecture, and technology. Indeed, their ability to describe complex forms nested within each other, and repeated towards infinity, has allowed the modeling of chaotic phenomena such as weather patterns or plant growth. Some human-designed patterns such as the ones developed by Islamic cultures have been found to follow similar principles of hierarchy, symmetry, and repetition. However, the application of these principles in the design of gardens is an underexplored field. This paper presents a comparative exploration of the four-fold garden design model—the chahár-bágh—typical of Persian and Islamic garden design by analyzing two case studies: Taj Mahal and Isfahan’s city plan. This four-fold pattern is known to not only have a religious reading but to be also linked with ideals of fair distribution. Using an innovative compositional fractal analysis inspired by architecture, our results demonstrate that these gardens contain a high level of self-replication and scale invariance and that they exhibit a high fractal dimension. The novel application of this method of analysis to historical landscape plans allows us to assess to what extent fractal concepts were already in use before the European Renaissance and Mandelbrot’s explorations, and to speculate on their symbolism in the context of Islamic and Persian garden design. Specifically, we conclude that the fractal characteristics of these gardens might be intended as a representation of the infinite divine but also of principles of fairness and equality. Moving forward, this approach could be applied to design spaces, namely in the infrastructural design of the urban fabric, which are both meaningful and environmentally just.

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“…Kemenangan Babur atas ekspansi di wilayah Samarkand tidak lepas dari adanya dukungan dan bantuan dari Kerajaan Safawi. Sehingga dalam beberapa peperangan kerajaan Mughal selalu mendapatkan kemenangan (Wescoat Jr., 1995;Melayu, 2014;Alavi, 2005;Alam & Subrahmanyam, 2004).…”

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Akulturasi Budaya Islam dan India: Tinjauan Historis Terhadap Dialektika Kebudayaan Islam di India

Faidi

2020

Warisan

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This article discusses the acculturation of Islamic and Indian culture and syncretism of Islam and Hinduism in India. In particular, this article examines the transformation and acculturation of Islam, as the largest celestial religion in the world, with Indian values and culture so thick with Hindu values; the largest Ardli religion in the world. Through the Historical approach, this paper will present the process of historical dynamics between Islamic and Indian culture. The Divine Din, is one of the syncretic religious concepts - coined by Mahmud Ghazan Khan - which marks the collaboration of religion and culture in Indian society during the Mughal Dynasty.

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From the gardens of theQur'anto the “gardens” of Lahore

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity

Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity

The fractal dimension of Islamic and Persian four-folding gardens

Akulturasi Budaya Islam dan India: Tinjauan Historis Terhadap Dialektika Kebudayaan Islam di India

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