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Mosque Architecture (No. 11): A Response to Climate Change - PRELIMINARY POSTULATION OF A FINER GREEN RATING TOOL FOR MOSQUES - GREEN MOSQUE CONFORMITY INDEX (GMCI)

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  1- Introduction Further to my suggestion in the earlier book of the mosque series, of establishing a finer green rating tool for mosques, I hereby make a draft outline of how it would possibly be improvised. Firstly, I would like to suggest that its nomenclature will be and referred to as the Green Mosque Conformity Index or GMCI. How it could be approached? The standard green rating index in each nation, as a whole, is already considered as monitoring the fulfilment of the requirement of the deen. But there is something else missing on the spiritual or moral values, its non-compliance would lead to wasteful, overconsumption and extravagant, which contradicts the green movement. The methodology is to use it as a finer supplementary tool to the 'standard green rating tools' available in each country, and to add these additional requirements on pertinent spiritual values in the design, utilisation of resources and circumventing  profligate: It is already an era of a new normal...
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Mosque Architecture (NO. 10): A REVIEW OF THE ARTICLE: DOES ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE REFLECT ISLAM (FAITH)? —THE MISCONCEPTION AND FALLACY OF THE ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

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  PIXABAY Photo It has been a long fact-finding quest for more supportive and concordant ideas from   scholarly articles on mosque architecture. These corroborating facts are necessary for further enlightenment on the subject, and making a clearer study case. In this piece, I would like to present a review-like approach on a paper presented at the “UIA 2017 Seoul World Architects Congress”, with a topic,  Does Islamic Architecture reflect Islamic Faith? - “Does Islamic Architecture Reflect Islam (Faith)?” ??2017-09-19“Does Islamic Architecture Reflect Islam (Faith)? - [PDF Document] https://vdocuments.net/p-0263-does-islamic-architecture-reflect-islam-faith-2017-09-19does.html To my understanding, the paper has succeeded in elaborating, what should be the right concept of architecture by Muslims that need to be in line with the deen. In fact, the concept of Historicism in arts and architecture of the Muslim world, should also be instituted on a new foundation. T...
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MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE (NO. 9): DOES ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE REFLECT ISLAM (FAITH)?

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Posted herewith are screenshots of the six pages of an article which was a paper presented at the “UIA 2017 Seoul World Architects Congress”, with the topic, “ Does Islamic Architecture reflect Islamic Faith?” [*] [*] P- 0263 “Does Islamic Architecture Reflect Islam (Faith)?” 2017-09-19 - [PDF Document] https://vdocuments.net/p-0263-does-islamic-architecture-reflect-islam-faith-2017-09-19does.html Probably, you may have misconstrued and presumed that there are no digression issues with the term Islamic Architecture.  In a forthcoming posting, I’ll come up with a review on this paper, God willing.  
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MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE (NO.8): A DELIBERATION ON THE EXCESSIVE ENCROACHMENT OF THE ‘ISLAMIC ARTS’ TYPICALLY OF ARABESQUE ORNAMENTS INTO THE MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE VIA MISGUIDED HISTORICISM AND SELF-INDUCED IGNORANCE

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  On the global scene, perhaps, it’s just due to a simple ‘viscous cycle’ which has led to the contaminations of the over indulgence of the ‘Islamic Arts’ of arabesque ornaments within the sanctified mosque buildings. This ‘vicious cycle’ is being created via historicism due to ignorance of the spiritual values on one aspect, and the other is due to the lackadaisical attitude towards the deen; a sequence of reciprocal cause and effect in which the two aspects intensify and aggravate each other, leading inexorably to a worsening of the situation.   Throwbacks to the past of mosque architecture, revealed that this mishap of excessive ornaments has been going on since from many, many centuries ago, recorded as early as of 670. (A paper presented at the meeting, “UIA   2017 Seoul   World Architects Congress”, with a topic, Does Islamic Architecture reflect Islamic Faith?). This took place as early as the time of the Dome of The Rock (691), the Great Mosque of Kairou...
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