The Oral and the Written in Architecture Education of the Islamic Era: Hypotheses about the Transmission of Architectural Knowledge

Q: How can I download an article?

To download an article from SID, first log in to the site, search for the article title, and click on the 'Download Article' option.

Q: How can I download an ISI article?

To download an ISI article on SID, enter the keyword or article title in the search bar, view the relevant results, click on the desired article, and select the 'Download Article' option.

Q: How can I access the SID database?

To access the SID database, visit SID.ir, create an account, and log in to access scientific resources.

Q: Is downloading articles from SID free?

Some articles on SID are available for free, while others require payment. Details are specified on the article's page.

Mojtahed zadeh Rouhollah

مرکز اطلاعات علمی Scientific Information Database (SID) - Trusted Source for Research and Academic Resources

Journal Paper

Paper Information

Journal: JOURNAL OF IRANIAN ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES Year:2022 | Volume:11 | Issue:21 Page(s): 53-68

Download Full-Text

Persian Verion

View:

116

Download:

Cites:

Information Journal Paper

Title

The Oral and the Written in Architecture Education of the Islamic Era: Hypotheses about the Transmission of Architectural Knowledge

Author(s)

Mojtahed zadeh Rouhollah | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

Islamic era

architecture education

oral and written

transmission of science

Abstract

Research on the relationship between science and architecture in the Islamic era has made significant progress in Iran in the last decade. This progress has simultaneously created new questions, such as about the transmission of science to the field of architecture, which itself requires questioning the nature of architecture education in the past—,a relatively neglected subject because of two presuppositions. The first presupposition is the illiteracy of the architects of the past and the second presupposition is the oral way of teaching architecture in the past. The result of such thinking, which is mainly derived from comparing Iranian architecture during the Islamic era with the architecture of medieval Europe, is that architectural education in Iran after Islam was oral and was carried out face-to-face in construction workshops and there was no written or school education involved. In the present article, a new hypothesis about architecture education in this era is proposed by reviewing the two aforementioned presuppositions. For this purpose, through two introductions, the matter of “, kuttab”,or “, maktab”,education as a type of elementary school and pre-vocational instruction in the Islamic world will be discussed first, and an attempt will be made to provide a clearer picture of the level of literacy or illiteracy of professionals in the Islamic era. Then, using Gregor Schoeler’, s theory in the field of education in the Islamic era, the two “, oral and written”,modes of education are discussed, and next, the role of each in the Islamic education model especially of crafts is explained. Finally, by using these two introductions and some historical evidence, a new hypothesis is presented about the transmission of architectural knowledge. Based on this hypothesis, the architectural education model, contrary to the existing model, includes school education and the transmission of practical skills. According to this model, the builders of the Islamic era were minimally literate, in general, through elementary school education which made them able to read and write and understand the basic principles of geometry and mathematics. Therefore, this education model had two main and complementary pillars. One pillar included the technical skills teachings that were usually taught in workshop environments in practice and were mainly oral processes,the other pillar, however, included the theoretical teachings and scientific materials which were taught in a school environment and by the usual methods of school teachings, i. e., sama‘,)audition(, qira’, a )recitation( and imla’,)dictation(. Thus, architecture education combined both “, oral and written”,modes.

Multimedia

No record.

Cites

No record.

References

No record.

Cite

APA: Copy

Mojtahed zadeh, Rouhollah. (2022). The Oral and the Written in Architecture Education of the Islamic Era: Hypotheses about the Transmission of Architectural Knowledge. JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIES, 11(21 ), 53-68. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/1050802/en

Vancouver: Copy

Mojtahed zadeh Rouhollah. The Oral and the Written in Architecture Education of the Islamic Era: Hypotheses about the Transmission of Architectural Knowledge. JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIES[Internet]. 2022;11(21 ):53-68. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/1050802/en

IEEE: Copy

Rouhollah Mojtahed zadeh, “The Oral and the Written in Architecture Education of the Islamic Era: Hypotheses about the Transmission of Architectural Knowledge,” JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE STUDIES, vol. 11, no. 21 , pp. 53–68, 2022, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/1050802/en

Related Journal Papers

No record.

Related Seminar Papers

No record.

Related Plans

No record.

Recommended Workshops

No record.