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The research paper attempts to establish a critical approach to studying the historical buildings of the Islamic architectural achievement by looking at them as an urban structure that is constantly evolving, changing and re-reading. The paper proposes the idea of recreating these buildings and giving them new design dimensions related to that time period, presenting a contemporary aesthetic meaning and values to these historical buildings through rehabilitation or reconstruction projects across the ages.

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تاثير عمليات الترميم واعادة البناء على الخصائص المعمارية الجوهرية للمباني التاريخية : دراسية تحليلة لنماذج مختارة من المساجد التاريخية في العراق The impact of restoration and reconstruction processes on the essential architectural characteristics of historic buildings: An analytical study for selected group of historical mosques in Iraq

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Samaan Majeed Yas : Consultant Architect & Urban Designer (B.Sc.Arch. Eng., M.Sc.Urban Design, Ph.D.Arch. Eng.) • Member of Engineering Consulting Bureau- University of Diyala (DECB) • Faculty member- Head of Department of Architecture - University of Diyala • Member in the Architectural Division – Iraqi Engineers Union- since 1994 – Consultant Degree since 2011 E- Mail : TEL. : samaan.yas@uodiyala.edu.iq samaan.yas@gmail.com +964 (0)7703905431 EDUCATIONAL & ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 2009 Ph.D. Arc. Eng., Baghdad University, Baghdad- Iraq Research subject: Future of architecture in Islamic Societies according to the civilizations dialogue concept 1995-1998 M.Sc. Urban Design (Master of Science in Urban Design), University of Technology, Baghdad – Iraq Research subject: Geometrical Properties in Islamic architecture: an analytical study of Shape Grammar in Mosques Architecture PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2000 Leader design team for Competition the Project Iraqi Women monument 2001 Leader design team for updating master plan project for the University of Tikrit 2001-2006 Executive director of Diyala Consultant Engineering Bureau (DCEB) 2001-2014 leader Design team and supervision series of project in (DCEB) for the project at Universities of Diyala, Tikrit, Karbala , technology in Baghdad and the Ministry of Health and some affiliated foreign humanitarian Service and the Health Directorate of Diyala and Governorate of Diyala province 2010-2012 General official consultant Architect for Diyala University chansler 2011-2014 Team leader (Iraqi side) cooperation with German firm (rha Aachen) for strategic Development (Updating Master Plan project for Muqdodiya city (at Diyala Province ) ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 1998 - 2001 Visitor lecturer at Architecture department at the University of technology -Baghdad 1997 - 1999 Visitor lecturer at the Institute of Applied Arts in Baghdad 2005 – 2013 2014-2016 2015-2018 2018 –2023 2023- tell now Lecturer at Civil Engineering department in University of Diyala Head of the Department of Architecture - College of Engineering, University of Diyala, Republic of Iraq Visitor lecturer at Architecture department at Philadelphia University – Jordan Faculty member in the Coll. of Engineering/ Dept. of Architecture in University of Diyala Head of the Department of Architecture - College of Engineering, University of Diyala, Republic of Iraq

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Modernity discourse in Muslim architecture: A comparative study between past and present experiences in mosque architecture

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https://icmamosques.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Dr.-Samaan-Modernity-discourse-in-Muslim-architecture.pdf

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