OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Islamic Architecture is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Syrian Children’s Imagination and Play Areas beyond the Physical Reality of Urban Spaces in Beirut	5
Investigating Syrian Refugees’ Choice of Location in Urban Areas as a Subjective Process: A Cross-case Comparison in the Neighbourhoods of Önder (Ankara) and Yunusemre (İzmir)	4
Borderscape: Forced Syrian Migration and New Spatial Practices in Lebanon	3
The Right to the Suburb: The ‘American Dream’ of Palestinian Citizens of Israel	3
‘Even in death, we’re being denied our place as human beings’: Geographic Islamophobia and Muslim Cemeteries in the English-Speaking West	3
A Teaching Methodology on the Combination of Architectural Tradition and Parametric Design: A Case Study with Birdhouses	3
Mualla Eyüboğlu’s Work in Village Institutes: A Hands-On Approach to National Architecture in 1940s Turkey	2
On Ruins: The Art and Politics of Architectural Heritage	2
Continuity and Rupture in Islamic Architecture	2
The Khan Al-Shilan: Appraising and Synthesizing Cultural Heritage Significance and Its Impact on Conservation Practices	2
Islamic Architecture on the Move: Publishing Architectural History in the Digital Age	2
From Garden to Landscape: Lessons from the Taj and the Alhambra	2
Modern Architecture and Colonialism in the Islamic World	2
Reorienting Perspectives: Why I Do Not Teach a Course Titled ‘Islamic Architecture’	1
New Universities for a New Nation: American Architects Redesign Higher Education for a Modern Pakistan	1
The Search for the Mosque of Florence: A Space of Negotiated Identities	1
The ‘Islamic-Modern’ Project in this Age of Uncertainty	1
‘Islam is a Place Inside Myself’: Material and Immaterial Re-Positioning of Religion in the Living Experience of Unaccompanied Muslim Minors in Italy	1
The Concrete Rupture: An Examination of Yugoslav Islamic Heritage in the Aftermath of the 1963 Skopje Earthquake	1
Constructing a Refugee Through Producing a Refugee Space: Russian Migrants in Occupied Istanbul (1919–22)	1
Dis-Placed: Space, Settlement, and Agency	1
Ronald Lewcock (1929–2022): In Memory of a Mentor	1
The Study of Islamic Architecture: Reflections on an Expanding Field	1
Ex Africa Aliquid Novum [There is something new coming from Africa]: Herman Haan and Aldo van Eyck’s Journeys in a Pseudo-Ethnographic Vein	1
Trauma as Evidence: Rifat Osman on Edirne	1

The Anecdotal Archive: Building Design, Oral History, and the Notion of an Alevi Place of Worship	1
Curating the ‘Islamic’: The Personal and the Political	1
From Vision to Reality: Tehran’s Urban Expansion Under Naser al-Din Shah (1848–96)	1
A Trinity of Values in Architecture for Muslim Societies	1
Widening the Horizons for the Study of Islamic Architecture	1
The Rebirth of the Madrasa Through Deconstructive Architecture: The Case of the College of Islamic Studies in Qatar	1
Islamic Art and Architecture in a Contested Region: Negotiating the Muslim Heritage in Meskheti, Georgia	1
Carving an Epistemological Space for Southeast Asia: Historiographical and Critical Engagements	1
Views of Islamic Architecture and on the Field: Photographs from IJIA’s First Decade	1
Which Ground Do Your Feet Touch? On the Metaverse, Image, and the Materiality of Architecture	1
The Destruction of the Old Bridge in Mostar: A Rupture in Collective Urban Space and Life	1
Cultural Encounters, Local Practice, and Historical Process in the Ancient Middle East	1
A Time for Solidarity: Rethinking the Architectural Establishment in the Age of COVID-19	1
Illustrating Islamic Architecture: On Visual Presentation and Scholarship	1
Ideology, Nationalism, and Architecture: Representations of Kurdish Sites in Turkish Art Historiography	1
The Garden of Babur in Kabul: A Dynastic Project of the Mughal Dynasty and Its Survival	1
‘A Place of Our Own’: Puerto Rican Muslims and Their Architectural Responses as Quadruple Minorities	1
A Field Without Fieldwork: Sustaining the Study of Islamic Architecture in the Twenty-first Century	1
The Question of Deaccessioning	1
Silencing Palestinian Architectural History in Israel: Reflections on Scholarship and Activism	1
Displaying Islamic Arts in Global Cities	1
Hosting Syrian Refugees in Saida (Lebanon) Under Protracted Displacement: Unfolding Spatial and Social Exclusion	1
Consolidating the Rule of Experts: A Model Village for Refugees in the Jordan Valley, 1945–55	1
Neo-Eurocentrism and Science: Implications for the Historiography of Islamic Art and Architecture	1
Facing Challenges Through Innovation: Redefining the Field of Islamic Architecture at IJIA	1
Islamic Architecture in Print: Reflections on Ten Years of IJIA	1
Documenting Islamic Architecture: Objectives and Outcomes in a Time of War	1
Hinterland of a Hinterland: The Changing Capital Cities of Sultanate and Mughal Bengal	1
Tehran’s Decentralization Project and the Emergence of Socio-Spatial Boundaries	1
Transitions: A Postscript	1
Ibb’s Grand Mosque: Heritage at Risk in Yemen’s Hinterland	1
Commemorations of Sinan: Creating a National Hero in Turkey in the 1930s	1
Relevance, Tradition, and Practice in Islamic Architecture: A Personal Journey	1
Everyday Migrant Architecture and Socio-Spatial Practices: Bawean Langkher in the Singapore Ponthuk	1
The Impact of the Mongol Conquests on Earthen Cities in Central Asia	1