Professor Stephane Pradines has published a new book on Historic Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa.
About the Book
This book is the first comprehensive synthesis on mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa, bringing together sites from more than twenty states from Sub-Saharan Africa; and more than 285 monuments, from the IXth to the XIXth centuries. This monograph is divided into three large geographical areas, from the earthen mosques of West Africa, to the Nile Valleys and the Horn of Africa, and to the Indian Ocean shores and Swahili coral stone mosques. The book is a statement that African mosques demonstrate cultural links with North Africa, Arabia, Persia and India. These monuments are unique in the history of Islamic architecture, and they belong to our World Heritage.
Author
Stephane Pradines is an archaeologist and Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London. He was the Director of the excavations of the Walls of Cairo in Egypt and many other excavations in the Indian Ocean (Coral Mosques of the Maldives) and East Africa (Gede in Kenya, Songo Mnara, Sanje ya Kati and Kua in Tanzania; Dembeni and Mutsamudu in Comoros). He is the author of Fortifications et urbanisation en Afrique orientale (2004), Gedi, une cité portuaire swahilie (2010), La collection d’armes orientales de Pierre Loti (2019) and the editor of Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures (2017) and Ports and Forts of the Muslims: Coastal Military Architecture (2020).
Professor Stephane Pradines has published a new book on Historic Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa.
About the Book
This book is the first comprehensive synthesis on mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa, bringing together sites from more than twenty states from Sub-Saharan Africa; and more than 285 monuments, from the IXth to the XIXth centuries. This monograph is divided into three large geographical areas, from the earthen mosques of West Africa, to the Nile Valleys and the Horn of Africa, and to the Indian Ocean shores and Swahili coral stone mosques. The book is a statement that African mosques demonstrate cultural links with North Africa, Arabia, Persia and India. These monuments are unique in the history of Islamic architecture, and they belong to our World Heritage.
Author
Stephane Pradines is an archaeologist and Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London. He was the Director of the excavations of the Walls of Cairo in Egypt and many other excavations in the Indian Ocean (Coral Mosques of the Maldives) and East Africa (Gede in Kenya, Songo Mnara, Sanje ya Kati and Kua in Tanzania; Dembeni and Mutsamudu in Comoros). He is the author of Fortifications et urbanisation en Afrique orientale (2004), Gedi, une cité portuaire swahilie (2010), La collection d’armes orientales de Pierre Loti (2019) and the editor of Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures (2017) and Ports and Forts of the Muslims: Coastal Military Architecture (2020).
