A Study and Analysis of the Attitudes Ruling the Studies of the Islamic City

Diverse and various researches which have been conducted in recent hundred years in the area of Islamic city, has made the accumulation of a great volume of theoretical texts in which the views are diverse, sometimes contradictory with a grave differences. This broadness and diversity and in some cases conflicts, has brought about ambiguity and confusion of researchers in this field in particular the young researchers and also it has made the true understanding of the limits of these studies associated with certain problems. On this basis, in the present research, it has been tried to elaborate and analyze the contents of the main existing and available sources in the area of study of Islamic city and the attitude prevailing on it. This will pave way to remove the problems and will help with detection and selection a proper attitude in the future studies to develop the theoretical foundations of the Islamic city. The results of this research, which has been made aiming at paving grounds for the compilation of the theoretical foundations of Islamic city and in descriptive-analytical and documented based methods, indicate the rule of three main morphologic (form-oriented), structural-oriented and de-constructional(critical) attitudes and some sub-attitudes or tendencies in this area.