Stéphane Pradines (ed.). Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures. Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

In parallel with historiography in general, architectural history has been primarily concerned with the heritage of elites, forgoing other social groups: this book, thus, aims to rectify this deficiency by highlighting the continuity of earthen architecture in many regions of the world and do away with the still-prevalent fallacy according to which mud-brick “preceded” red brick and both were eventually superseded by stone. Pre-modern societies across Asia, Africa, Europe, and America, primar...