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Breaking the myths of Islamic Architecture | Sohail Hashmi | TEDxAryabhattaCollege


the area of the unknown is always larger
than the area and the only big bonus can
expend is by questioning receive
knowledge whatever has been handed down
to us else the great knowledge of
hostages everything needs to be
questioned and illustrate this I’m going
to give you one example until you are
familiar with what I’m going to be
speaking about I am NOT in a country
which has Islamic architecture now if I
were to ask you what is Islamic
architecture what are the elements that
define Islamic architecture I’ll tell
you what you’re thinking off already
the go know the arch and some inaudible
let us look at these three things before
we proceed next time you type these
words and with an unending images of
arches the Romans first became Jews the
GU art and they built them in series one
adds another ayat another ayat and all
of them the same height actually
slightly decreasing Heights the death
water from the mountains and all of the
arches they built the water
gender-equality the channel for water
and the products carried water from
villages from mountain streams to
settlement
where people live and this was getting
all these series of arches so there
isn’t the first use of the robot before
I proceed I give you a definition of an
arch the back door da Vinci I don’t
think you can get a better definition
than that
and Hajj is strength created by two big
messes this house will collapse because
this is the base and this is evil behind
this will form this will fall they fall
on each other and create that phenomenal
strength then this is the art now this
ayat was built by the Romans
pre-christian Romans before the birth of
Christ which are both there I’ve seen a
few Christ was born and many they
created much earlier in a place born SSS
which is and what else place which is a
Greek tongue which was taken over by the
Romans and then someone’s been there so
that is the arts had nothing whatsoever
to do the Muslims from the arch series
of arches you will get a voltage stand
beneath Santa Cruz and what you see is
an inverted border that is where the
idea came from originate and you take it
invited boat and that it was nice into
the gotchas that is the arch it was
first together by the moment there is a
key spoon shaped like a bridge and their
other spawns and the week is password
the next stage was to take the small
eyes build a larger eyes mixed with
another adds another heart and ever
acted them step decreasing the sizes of
the arteries and we have a good the
first dog was also built by the Romans
and it was created for an absolutely
second that means the Romans was to
elect their leaders they were known as
senators that’s how many Parliament’s
have known as Senate’s the first Senate
was created by the Romans synonyms on
paper and equivalence and you did
acquire the space where everybody had
equal status it says this circular need
that led to the evolution of the art a
cupboard space
without pillars where every senator
would see everybody else and everybody
sat in a circle so nobody sat at the
highest gear Julius Caesar also sat in
the Senate and his sworn enemy also said
and they would take the same status so
you know who’s do you see this for any
yes so professor since I said together
the goal and the space covered by the
dome is first truly democratic
architecture this removal remove that is
the distance between the higher stables
and receivers
it is this sector of need for the
Senators to be able to debate together
at the same level that we are the dome
comes in Judaism as a religion
pre-exists the Roman Empire and dude as
long as we would know his accommodation
there is a priest and others for the
women the bone comes into existence
the followers of Buddha ISM said we can
use this some of the ugliest synagogue’s
began to lose the shape of the goal to
create their places of worship after to
die Rome and the Roman Empire and
actually the Roman Baths were still
around
when Jesus asked Jesus is also he is the
founder of another congregation
algorithm and they also began to lose
the goal for prayers the last in the
series of semantic religions of the
Muslims who are also prominent in her
religion and they also lose the goal in
their bosses except the Muslims did not
begin using the mosque using the goal
for a very long time this was most that
was built was built by moment it had no
goals no artist no minutes it was made
with mud in the desert so that was much
much later does the dough became a part
of mosque architecture now I come to the
question I am driving to work soon all
of you have read from your school days
about Islamic architecture as anywhere
else you wondered if there is Christian
have another question is there you know
what to get them if they move into one
we capture and there isn’t there is
pretty hard on yourself there is voice
in architecture the digital architecture
there is China architecture the
you know I just in the Vatican when the
Pope my braces his devotees for the
devotees of the Roman Catholic written
down that is the largest NGO in the
world it is important to be on the
capital
you travel all over the world you see
those all over the world nobody looks at
the Romans at all but that is nothing
the homes are really it becomes Islamic
monotheism looks on piyah sophia h AG i
SS ID hiya Sophia aya sophia is a
phenomenally beautiful gossip
phenomenally beautiful with a massive
dome and six or eight minutes but look
read about it
aya sophia was linked by the greek
orthodox church it was a greek orthodox
church
then get the roman catholics who built
the little little daylight out of the
Greek also love Stefan occupied written
and became a Roman Catholic Chur then in
the bicenthium Muslims who difficult the
Roman Catholics at the game of us same
way same structure nobody has that if it
is exactly the same if you build them
Arthur right later on it will become
forget it if you write English for it
will it become any subculture what will
you put over Protestant and if you want
to write these roots of the visa will it
become he new architecture has no reason
I mean textured of the response of the
people to their environment what the
level of technology what is the material
available you put all this together you
have a behavior what is presented to us
as Islamic architecture is actually
centrally she acted by going with what
it that it is said it evolved in Turkey
and Iran and
here in the Bank of Hawaii would have
also read we have been told that sighs
times have been somebody claims the
minute to point people so clear you know
but said the first mass spindle is that
has been arrested to complain so there
was a bill by rather build in 1656 of
weakened 1656 the first Boston they were
built in 1192 1192 1666 hundreds of Oslo
bill why go through survival not one of
them’s is every night and if you don’t
believe me go to the DA was didn’t buy
yourself a ticket
Terry some friends with you full set the
courtyard you climb up and shout your
levels of physics and the mean Alex
would not feel it for quality people for
craters texture but properly different
purpose just as there is a steep within
civilization even today believe that
this is a core to subscales who is
watching and easy whether you had an
and there’s people and the do they find
goodies for none of these jokers know
that the world is sphere and it is not
flat and a sphere suspended in
atmosphere in the space has nothing
above it and nothing below it because no
matter how your go problem is in Gainey
it will still be beneath the feet of
those who live in America about their
hundred and sixteen hundred and eighty
degree pillows and no matter how tall
they will build their it will be below
asleep you know so this is based on a
wrong understanding of the world we live
this the Vanara is no and then it comes
an englishman who writes it out for us
and say the minaret is built for calling
people foreigners and this is the
slamming architecture and for last two
hundred years we have been we have
believed all this without questioning
the possible man has written that is the
extent of our intellect being
this granite applicator then why they
will be talking about me
this is the creation of the other you
had to study the Muslims would be
friends from deeper acid because the
Buddha’s have been cited do all this
began in the process that is the
beginning of this creation of the other
so you begin with Islamic architecture
then you begin with the Islamic music
Islamic rest and for heaven’s sake you
need to question you need to question
don’t accept anything regardless of what
a great God man is how London he is how
many books he has written unless it
appeals to your intellect don’t accept it
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