Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Transregional Manifestations of Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas

Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf

PART I: Rethinking the Mudéjar in the Americas: Colonial Contexts

Chapter 1. Design, Disruption, and Disease: Reconstructing the Historical Context of the ‘Mosque-type’ Chapels in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Luis Carlos Barragán

Chapter 2. ‘A Church of Mosque Proportions’: Debates of Mudéjar Style in New Granada

 Juan Ricardo Rey

Chapter 3. Echoes of Mashrabiya in Latin America: Reconsidering the Balconies of Lima

Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral

PART II: RevisitingOrientalism in the Americas: Nineteenth and Twentieth century Forms and Patronage

Chapter 4. The Turkish Style Cozy Corner: Everyday Appropriations of Islamicate Objects and Spaces in the American Parlor, 1885-1910

Sarah Ordu

Chapter 5. Midwest Middle East: Forms of Synthesis in Chicago’s Bahá’í Temple

Vadjon Sohaili

Chapter 6. Constructing Orientalism in Interwar Florida

Emily Neumeier

PART III: RevealingDiasporic Patronage in the Americas: Modern and Contemporary Representational and Religious Space

Chapter 7. Crafting Cosmopolitanism in the Brazilian Mahjar: Eclecticism, Orientalism and the Syrian-Lebanese Architectural Patronage of the Jafet family in Centennial São Paulo

Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf

Chapter 8. Independent and/or Instrumentalized: Surveying Mosque Architecture in Chile (1986-2006)’

Courtney Lesoon

Chapter 9. Canadian Mosques: Hybridity of Form and Program

Tammy Gaber

Chapter 10. Diasporic Aesthetics and the Genealogy of an Urban Mosque: An Analysis of the Islamic Center of the Washington D.C. Islamic Center

Akel Kahera

Contributor Biographies