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- Title
History of Shrine Architecture: Studying Cultural History of Sufi Shrines in Colonial Punjab.
- Authors
Khan, Hussain Ahmad
- Abstract
This article surveys the current trends for studying the architecture of Sufi shrines and proposes a historical method for writing cultural history of Sufi shrines of colonial Punjab. Cultural, social and architectural historians, and cultural anthropologists use various methodologies for this purpose, I will highlight the pre-suppositions and methodological limitations of these approaches. The proposed historical method for studying Sufi shrines derives certain features from each approach discussed in the article, thus attempts to historicise sacred architecture by engaging the role of patrons, builders, images and inscriptions within the larger political and social context in which building was constructed.
- Subjects
SHRINES -- Design &; construction; HISTORIC structures; SACRED space; CULTURAL property; HISTORIC sites -- Social aspects
- Publication
Pakistan Vision, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 2, p223
- ISSN
1681-5742
- Publication type
Article