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THE MINARET: A REASSESSMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FUNCTION AND RELIGIOUS VALUE, IN LIGHT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY [PDF]

open access: yesJES: Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2020
This essay seeks to provide a theoretical discussion of the normative and juristic position with respect to building and using minarets in contemporary mosques.
Hossam Mahmoud Massoud
doaj   +1 more source

The changing role of historic town of Rhodes in the scenario of Ottoman and Italian rules in the light of the iconographic sources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
International audienceRhodes was the Hospitaller stronghold until the early modern age. It went through an urban and architectural evolution under the Ottoman and Italian rules.
Maglio, Emma
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A crisis of religious diversity: debating integration in post-immigration Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The growing cultural complexity in the face of new immigration waves influences the public understanding of religious diversity. The two central questions of this article are as follows: first, ‘how much religious difference and of what kind is ...
Scalvini, Marco
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Tomb towers and minarets: analysis of symmetries and geometries of Iranian geometrical ornaments of the Seljuq era. Pictorial requiem for the Kharraqan towers

open access: yesRendiconti Lincei SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI, 2023
Ornamental adornment of the Kharraqan tomb towers, the most outstanding funeral monuments of the Seljuk era in NW Iran, and those of four best-preserved Seljuq brick minarets in northern Iran, documents the artistic canon of the pre-glaze stage of ...
E. Makovicky
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Integration Between Urban Design and Architectural Design as A Methodology of Design in Islamic Architecture [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Urban Research
The initial reading of Mamluks architecture reveals that the forms are governed by urban factors, so it is in correct to understand Mamluks buildings as a container of spaces, but it is a receptacle of a homogeneous mixture of interior architectural ...
Abdullah Mossa Alzahrani   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Point cloud segmentation using hierarchical tree for architectural models

open access: yes, 2018
Recent developments in the 3D scanning technologies have made the generation of highly accurate 3D point clouds relatively easy but the segmentation of these point clouds remains a challenging area.
Butt, Zain   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Democracia directa y religión: problemas derivados de la decisión suiza de prohibir los minaretes = Direct democracy and religion: problems derived from the swiss ban of minarets

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Político, 2013
La posibilidad de aprobar por referéndum reformas constitucionales de iniciativa popular caracteriza el régimen suizo en línea con su apuesta por la utilización de mecanismos de democracia directa.
Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Diameter of Micropile on the Minaret Behavior during Earthquake, Virtual study

open access: yesJournal of Engineering, 2022
This study aims to suggest a technique for soil properties improvement of AL- Kadhimin shrine Minaret and to support the foundation, which has a tilt of roughly 80 cm from the vertical axis.
Mohamed Saad Hadi, Haider M. Mekkiyah
doaj   +1 more source

Performance of masonry buildings during the 20 and 27 December 2007 Bala (Ankara) earthquakes in Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper evaluates the performance of masonry buildings during the 20 and 27 December 2007 Bala (Ankara) earthquakes. Bala is a township located 50 km southeast from Ankara city in Turkey.
S. Adanur
core   +1 more source

Study of the Architectural Forms Composition of the Ottoman Minarets Mosques in Constantine City-Algeria

open access: yesDirasat Human and Social Sciences, 2023
Objectives: The minarets are one of the most important elements of Islamic architecture that deserve study and attention, as they are a wonderful record of all the phases that Islamic art went through around the world.
Adel Sekhri   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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