Nancy Um - <div style="text-align: justify;">This essay considers the circumstances that constrain the field of Islamic architectural history, such as widespread limitations on research travel and fieldwork, which were significant even before the COVID-19 crisis, and structural challenges within the professional landscape of higher education. It posits a view towards the future of the field, which responds to these limitations, in order to ensure its robust continuation.</div>
A Field Without Fieldwork: Sustaining the Study of Islamic Architecture in the Twenty-first Century
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abstract
Year
2021
This essay considers the circumstances that constrain the field of Islamic architectural history, such as widespread limitations on research travel and fieldwork, which were significant even before the COVID-19 crisis, and structural challenges within the professional landscape of higher education. It posits a view towards the future of the field, which responds to these limitations, in order to ensure its robust continuation.
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Um, Nancy. "A Field Without Fieldwork: Sustaining the Study of Islamic Architecture in the Twenty-first Century." International Journal of Islamic Architecture 10, 1 (2021): 99-109.
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