| Author(s) | Jamel Akbar |
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, Department of Architecture College of Architecture and Planning, King Faisal University |
| Title | Is There an Islamic City? |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Architecture & Planning. Volume 6, No 1. (1994/1414) |
| Abstract | The question whether there is an Islamic City or not is increasingly caushtg debates among professionals and academicians. There are those who argue for it and those who deny it. The article, by refuting the paradigms that were thus far established regarding this question, argues that most of those paradigms’ conclusions are based on observing the artifact and not the process which created them; therefore their conclusions are not satisfying. Thus, it suggest another method of distinction which is based on the process and argues for the existence of Islamic City regardless of the physical differences between the diverse Muslim cultures. |
