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The cultural zone of Bengal holds its own spatial location between two worlds -the Himalayas in the north and the Indian Ocean in the south forming a territorial discontinuity. It’s Bengal,where the land-bulge of the Indian sub-continent contracts….And the same time, forms the western edge of the other complex racial and cultural continuity. As such a monocultural point of view would restrict an understanding of the historical layering and the diversity within. | |||
Islam was a direct component of Turko-Persian culture in India, specifically in the North because of its proximity in terms trade and military operations to unsettle the existing powers. In Bengal the process of Islamic spread was much less a political and societal upheaval, it involves a different dynamics mainly because of the cultural identity of the Bengali spoken Muslims and its completely different geo-climatic setting. In such circumstances there were ample chances of a transformation of the ancient consciousness of place than a total obliteration. | |||
For example, why did the Muslim Builders prefer to build the most number of small pavilion-like mosques although having have had constructed the ambitious Adina Mosque? The builders of the first mosques who converted to Islam had an understanding of construction in brick. Architectural elements like vaults, arches and domes were not an invention of the time but the Islamic builders understanding of an architectural schemata was experiential and stood deep in the local sensitivity, causing in an iconographic shift in the typology of mosques in the Islamic world. | |||
The term ‘Bengal’ was first used in the travel descriptions of Marco Polo which literally means an ancient group of people who lived in the southern part of Bangladesh. About 1330, in the time of Delhi emperor Tughlag, Bengal was divided into three sub-provinces, Lakhnawti(Gaur) in the north, Sonargaon in the east and Satgaon in the south West. Tughlag unified the three provinces and declared the first independent sultanate free from Delhi Sultanate. | |||
During these independent Muslim occupation of Bengal,some Sufis and saints came and settled in different parts of Bengal for their missionary activities to propagate Islam,for example Khan Jahan ‘Ali at Bagerhat,Shah Jalal at Sylet,Baba Adam at Rampal-Dhaka,Makhdum Shahdaullah Shahid at Shahjadpur etc. Over time, the Sufis earned significant social importance and were further encouraged by Sultans to built social institutions. | |||
Revisión del 11:13 8 dic 2012
| Título | The Sinking Brick Mosques of Bengal |
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| Del Curso | Poética de las Aguas |
| Carreras | Náutico y Marítimo"Náutico y Marítimo" is not in the list (Arquitectura, Diseño, Magíster, Otra) of allowed values for the "Carreras Relacionadas" property. |
| Alumno(s) | Arijit Chatterjee |
Introduction
The cultural zone of Bengal holds its own spatial location between two worlds -the Himalayas in the north and the Indian Ocean in the south forming a territorial discontinuity. It’s Bengal,where the land-bulge of the Indian sub-continent contracts….And the same time, forms the western edge of the other complex racial and cultural continuity. As such a monocultural point of view would restrict an understanding of the historical layering and the diversity within.
Islam was a direct component of Turko-Persian culture in India, specifically in the North because of its proximity in terms trade and military operations to unsettle the existing powers. In Bengal the process of Islamic spread was much less a political and societal upheaval, it involves a different dynamics mainly because of the cultural identity of the Bengali spoken Muslims and its completely different geo-climatic setting. In such circumstances there were ample chances of a transformation of the ancient consciousness of place than a total obliteration.
For example, why did the Muslim Builders prefer to build the most number of small pavilion-like mosques although having have had constructed the ambitious Adina Mosque? The builders of the first mosques who converted to Islam had an understanding of construction in brick. Architectural elements like vaults, arches and domes were not an invention of the time but the Islamic builders understanding of an architectural schemata was experiential and stood deep in the local sensitivity, causing in an iconographic shift in the typology of mosques in the Islamic world.
The term ‘Bengal’ was first used in the travel descriptions of Marco Polo which literally means an ancient group of people who lived in the southern part of Bangladesh. About 1330, in the time of Delhi emperor Tughlag, Bengal was divided into three sub-provinces, Lakhnawti(Gaur) in the north, Sonargaon in the east and Satgaon in the south West. Tughlag unified the three provinces and declared the first independent sultanate free from Delhi Sultanate.
During these independent Muslim occupation of Bengal,some Sufis and saints came and settled in different parts of Bengal for their missionary activities to propagate Islam,for example Khan Jahan ‘Ali at Bagerhat,Shah Jalal at Sylet,Baba Adam at Rampal-Dhaka,Makhdum Shahdaullah Shahid at Shahjadpur etc. Over time, the Sufis earned significant social importance and were further encouraged by Sultans to built social institutions.
