Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi
Biographic Data
| ID | 936643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara Honarmand |
| FAMILY NAME | Ebrahimi |
| SIGNATURE | EBRAHIMI S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0436-8315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Internationalism as lived experience: Some critical reflections
The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā
In 1969, the Aga Khan IV, the forty-ninth hereditary Imam (spiritual and temporal leader) of the global Shiʻi Ismaili Muslim community, selected a “suitable team” to design and construct the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. The buildings began going up in 1971, and the complex was completed in 1985. This article situates the design and planning of the University Hospital in the context of 20th-century hospital architecture to ex…
Female Missionaries and the Architecture of Women’s Hospitals
The issue of gaining trust was relevant to activities of both male and female missionaries, but female missionaries were seen as better suited for this task. This chapter highlights female missionaries’ involvement in the design process of the hospitals. A particular concern of the chapter is Dr Minnie Gomery, who was responsible for designing the Islamabad (Anantnag) hospital. Furthermore, the chapter shows that female medical missionaries did n…
Life Before and Outside the Mission Hospitals
This chapter examines missionaries’ activities before the construction of and outside the mission hospitals. It shows that dispensaries, itineration tours and adapted existing buildings were viewed as instrumental in establishing contacts with larger numbers of people and thus in preparing the ground for hospital work. It expands existing studies that consider these activities at best ancillary to the development of medical missions and integrate…
The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place, edited by Sioli, Angeliki, and Elisavet Kiourtsoglou
Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914
Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was considered as the best and surest way to overcome the distrust of and gain access to the homes of the indigenous population. Through studying the medical activities and infrastructures of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Persia and north-western British India and building upon existing works on missionar…
Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914
An innovative history of medical mission from the perspective of the history of emotions Raises important historical questions about the process of civilising emotions in Christian missionary contexts Utilises archival research in the UK and Canada, and field work in Persia Weaves together the history of emotions and Christian missions with the history of colonial built environments and colonial medicine to bring new insight to the history of med…
Centering Emotions in Architectural Historiographies of Modern European Imperialism
Commenting on the use of indigenous Moroccan motifs in the official buildings of the colonial government in Morocco in the 1920s, the French architect Joseph Marrast famously stated: “And thus, little by little, we conquer the hearts of the natives and win their affection, as is our duty as colonizers.” What did Marrast mean by “affection”? Did his understanding of affection differ from that of his English counterparts or early modern French impe…
The Church Missionary Society (CMS) Medical Missions and Anglo-Russian Rivalry, 1865–1914
This essay examines the public views of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) (medical) missionaries in North-western British India of Anglo-Russian rivalry. In their reports, the missionaries recognized the value of their work as worth a “regiment” to the British government. The essay shows that this claim is comparable to views of some of the early nineteenth-century missionaries, who talked about the providential-purpose of the empire, arguing t…
Introduction: Exploring Architecture and Emotions through Space and Place
This special forum section of Emotions: History, Culture, Society moves forward scholarship on the history of the relationship between architecture and emotions. It specifically shows that while, on the face of it, talking about architecture and emotions appears anything but new, we still have a long way to go. In this introduction, I shall first provide a brief overview and critique of works such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perce…
Roundtable: The Archives of Global History in a Time of International Immobility
These books often historicize structures that facilitate or constrain global connections, mobility and interactions, and they often present narratives that are less Eurocentric than those they write against.2 But they rarely raise the question of who gets to be a global historian. After all, the use of multiple archives across national borders has always relied on the possession of a strong passport and the funding of a wealthy institution. When …
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World
In the last two decades or so, there has been a lot of excellent research on the modern history of institution building in the Muslim world. The chief focus of this scholarship has been on institutions established by colonial states and by missionaries. For example, American missionaries had fifty-seven schools and twenty hospitals in the Ottoman Empire by 1909.1 Emrah Şahin, Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottom…
Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914
Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was considered as the best and surest way to overcome the distrust of and gain access to the homes of the indigenous population. Through studying the medical activities and infrastructures of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Persia and north-western British India and building upon existing works on missionar…
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World
In the last two decades or so, there has been a lot of excellent research on the modern history of institution building in the Muslim world. The chief focus of this scholarship has been on institutions established by colonial states and by missionaries. For example, American missionaries had fifty-seven schools and twenty hospitals in the Ottoman Empire by 1909.1 Emrah Şahin, Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottom…
Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914
An innovative history of medical mission from the perspective of the history of emotions Raises important historical questions about the process of civilising emotions in Christian missionary contexts Utilises archival research in the UK and Canada, and field work in Persia Weaves together the history of emotions and Christian missions with the history of colonial built environments and colonial medicine to bring new insight to the history of med…
Centering Emotions in Architectural Historiographies of Modern European Imperialism
Commenting on the use of indigenous Moroccan motifs in the official buildings of the colonial government in Morocco in the 1920s, the French architect Joseph Marrast famously stated: “And thus, little by little, we conquer the hearts of the natives and win their affection, as is our duty as colonizers.” What did Marrast mean by “affection”? Did his understanding of affection differ from that of his English counterparts or early modern French impe…
The Church Missionary Society (CMS) Medical Missions and Anglo-Russian Rivalry, 1865–1914
This essay examines the public views of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) (medical) missionaries in North-western British India of Anglo-Russian rivalry. In their reports, the missionaries recognized the value of their work as worth a “regiment” to the British government. The essay shows that this claim is comparable to views of some of the early nineteenth-century missionaries, who talked about the providential-purpose of the empire, arguing t…
Introduction: Exploring Architecture and Emotions through Space and Place
This special forum section of Emotions: History, Culture, Society moves forward scholarship on the history of the relationship between architecture and emotions. It specifically shows that while, on the face of it, talking about architecture and emotions appears anything but new, we still have a long way to go. In this introduction, I shall first provide a brief overview and critique of works such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perce…
Roundtable: The Archives of Global History in a Time of International Immobility
These books often historicize structures that facilitate or constrain global connections, mobility and interactions, and they often present narratives that are less Eurocentric than those they write against.2 But they rarely raise the question of who gets to be a global historian. After all, the use of multiple archives across national borders has always relied on the possession of a strong passport and the funding of a wealthy institution. When …
Female Missionaries and the Architecture of Women’s Hospitals
The issue of gaining trust was relevant to activities of both male and female missionaries, but female missionaries were seen as better suited for this task. This chapter highlights female missionaries’ involvement in the design process of the hospitals. A particular concern of the chapter is Dr Minnie Gomery, who was responsible for designing the Islamabad (Anantnag) hospital. Furthermore, the chapter shows that female medical missionaries did n…
Life Before and Outside the Mission Hospitals
This chapter examines missionaries’ activities before the construction of and outside the mission hospitals. It shows that dispensaries, itineration tours and adapted existing buildings were viewed as instrumental in establishing contacts with larger numbers of people and thus in preparing the ground for hospital work. It expands existing studies that consider these activities at best ancillary to the development of medical missions and integrate…
The Sound of Architecture: Acoustic Atmospheres in Place, edited by Sioli, Angeliki, and Elisavet Kiourtsoglou
Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914
Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was considered as the best and surest way to overcome the distrust of and gain access to the homes of the indigenous population. Through studying the medical activities and infrastructures of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Persia and north-western British India and building upon existing works on missionar…
The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā
In 1969, the Aga Khan IV, the forty-ninth hereditary Imam (spiritual and temporal leader) of the global Shiʻi Ismaili Muslim community, selected a “suitable team” to design and construct the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. The buildings began going up in 1971, and the complex was completed in 1985. This article situates the design and planning of the University Hospital in the context of 20th-century hospital architecture to ex…
Internationalism as lived experience: Some critical reflections
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