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Abstract

The Islamic forms reflect a symbolic content and spiritual and ideological dimensions. Between their resistance to change and their response to the formal transformations resulting from technology and contemporary techniques, new ideas and forms are generated. This puts the Islamic form in a challenge that could lead to its emptying of its symbolism and semantic expressions and between its flexible transitions across time and space. Therefore, the research raises the concept of resistance (symbolic-formal) that is known as the interconnected relationship between form, meaning, symbol, and spiritual values. Therefore, the research problem appears " The variation and formal diversity of the output of Islamic architecture is subject to the dialectic of resistance (symbolic-formal) and its response to change, which gives the product high durability" Where the formal resistance comes from the symbolic stability of its forms over time, which turns into known symbolic constants. The research assumes that the forms reflect a high formal resistance against their ability to make multiple formal transformations because they have a fixed spiritual and symbolic content that transcends its spatial dimensions. Methods of measuring formal analysis and a questionnaire were adopted on a group of mosques to extrapolate both types of resistance. It was concluded that the contemporary Islamic production is characterized by a high spiritual resistance resulting from the integration between traditional and contemporary thought. The existence of this resistance at its levels and characteristics that the study determined gave the Islamic production high durability and flexibility over time.

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