Shunhua Jin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shunhua Jin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shunhua |
| FAMILY NAME | Jin |
| SIGNATURE | JIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Berlin Germany |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2315-4423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Depicting the Holy Cities
This article examines a scroll entitled “ The Illustration of Arabia ” ( 天方圖考 ) which is held at the Italian Geographical Society in Rome. Made by a Chinese Muslim, it offers a unique visual and intellectual perspective on Islamic holy sites. The research transcribes and translates the text of scroll into English, and analyses it in the Chinese Islamic context, comparing them to Chinese cosmology, mythology, and the Han Kitab . It also explores t…
The Transformation of Domes in Medieval Chinese Mosques
This article studies the evolution of the Muslim community in China between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries from the perspective of mosque architecture. It analyses four medieval Chinese mosques with domed mihrab chambers: the Hangzhou Phoenix Mosque, the Songjiang Mosque, the Dingzhou Mosque, and the Qingyang Great North Mosque. The article focuses on the dome-roof of the mihrab chamber in these mosques, applying an art-historical approac…
Representing and Experiencing Islamic Domes
Lindsay Jones developed the concept of "ritual-architectural event", according to which the meaning of a sacred building depends upon the participant's experience of it in the course of the rituals they perform. Starting from such approach, and taking the Islamic dome as my subject-matter, I examine the correlations that link architectural forms, ritual performance, and participants' experience into a whole. I first survey a corpus of images rela…
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Representing and Experiencing Islamic Domes
Lindsay Jones developed the concept of "ritual-architectural event", according to which the meaning of a sacred building depends upon the participant's experience of it in the course of the rituals they perform. Starting from such approach, and taking the Islamic dome as my subject-matter, I examine the correlations that link architectural forms, ritual performance, and participants' experience into a whole. I first survey a corpus of images rela…
The Transformation of Domes in Medieval Chinese Mosques
This article studies the evolution of the Muslim community in China between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries from the perspective of mosque architecture. It analyses four medieval Chinese mosques with domed mihrab chambers: the Hangzhou Phoenix Mosque, the Songjiang Mosque, the Dingzhou Mosque, and the Qingyang Great North Mosque. The article focuses on the dome-roof of the mihrab chamber in these mosques, applying an art-historical approac…
Depicting the Holy Cities
This article examines a scroll entitled “ The Illustration of Arabia ” ( 天方圖考 ) which is held at the Italian Geographical Society in Rome. Made by a Chinese Muslim, it offers a unique visual and intellectual perspective on Islamic holy sites. The research transcribes and translates the text of scroll into English, and analyses it in the Chinese Islamic context, comparing them to Chinese cosmology, mythology, and the Han Kitab . It also explores t…
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