Sara Mondini delivered a lecture on ‘The Mosques of Kerala: Artistic Vocabularies in the Identity-Building of Muslim Communities’. It was chaired by Ananya Vajpeyi.
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This lecture will discuss mosques on the Malabar coast, from the initial spread of Islam to the present day. While some of these mosques are among the oldest in India and the Islamic world, their architecture has been neglected in the art historical literature. They seem to be a remarkable synthesis of artistic vocabularies borrowed from other Muslim regions, fused with elements drawn from local and South East Asian vernacular and temple architecture. However, their originality and historical value are today jeopardised by increasing renovation, demolition, and reconstruction works. The lecture will focus on the role of architectural and stylistic transformations in reshaping the identities of Muslim communities associated with these mosques.
Sara Mondini is Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture of West and South Asia in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium. As an art historian, she specialises in the artistic productions both ancient and modern of South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently leading a five-year project titled ‘The Mosques of Kerala: Artistic Vocabularies in the Identity-Building of Muslim Communities' (2023-2028).
Ananya Vajpeyi is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
Friday, 18 October 2024, 4 pm, Seminar Room and Zoom https://bit.ly/3zZC0YN
