Introduction

Architectural expressions resonant with Islamic traditions appear in diverse modes across the Americas, from Andalusian-inspired colonial patios in Peru to the modern and contemporary patronage of immigrant communities in the United States and Canada. This volume examines the multiple manifestations of Islamic architecture that permeate the region's built environment to invite an expanded framing of this architectural legacy via a hemispheric consideration of aesthetics, narrative, and patronage. By productively placing in dialogue sites that represent Islamic and Islamicate architecture across North and South America – two areas outside of the traditional conceptions of the Islamic world– this volume bridges transregional and transcultural gaps in the current literature.

Keywords: aesthetics ; Alhambrism ; diaspora ; hemispheric ; historiography ; Mahjar ; mobility ; Moorish Revival ; Mosques in Latin America ; Mosques in North America ; Mudéjar ; Neo-Moorish ; Orientalism ; patronage ; transnational mosque