The Survey of Historical Monument at Islands as Maldives; Formulation for the Basic Grounds for the Architectural History of Indian Ocean

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25420680
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Architectural history/Design
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: FUKAMI NAOKO 早稲田大学, イスラーム地域研究機構, その他(招聘研究員) (70424223)
• Research Collaborator: Mauroof Jameel マラヤ大学, 研究員 ; SHINDO Yoko 東洋文庫, 研究員 ; Mohamed Soliman 考古省, コプトイスラーム部門長 ; TSUJIMURA Sumiyo 国士舘大学, 研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: モルディブ / 建築文化 / 伝播・受容・定着 / イスラーム / 珊瑚石 / モスク / 離島 / 環礁

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Following five points are clear from the field survey of 26 coral historical mosques in Maldives, the field surveys which was done until 2013 and the previous studies.
Maldivian Islamic architecture have 1) the uniqueness of the coral mosques, 2) the influence of Buddhist and Hindu architectural culture more than thousand years ago from Sri Lanka and India, 3) the influence of Islamic architecture since the twelfth century from Middle East, West Asia and West India as arid zone, 4) the influence of wooden architectural culture from the eastern tropical regions like Bengal bay area or Southeast Asia, 5) the uniformity of the architectural culture all over Maldives ranging thousand kilo meters. As these points are correlation with each other, the unique Maldivian Islamic architecture made by coral stones was established relating the geographical peculiarity of atolls.

Free Research Field

イスラーム建築史、インド洋建築史