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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Akel Isma'il KaheraPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781793646873ISBN 10: 1793646872 Pages: 244 Publication Date: 03 July 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Location of Mosques wrestles with Michel Foucault’s ideas on space, while weaving together local and global notions of place, as it interrogates today’s public spectacles over the Great Mosque of Córdoba near Madrid alongside the Ground Zero Mosque in Manhattan. Akel Kahera expands our discussion about mosque space by assigning it a genealogy, unpacking various sites as a forensic scientist would dissect a human body to determine its birth history, traumatic relations, and lifestyle markings. It is a fresh and contemplative approach. Animating the book is the question, “Who Defines place?” But what makes this query so intriguing is how its answers revolve around the interlocking dimensions of space, knowledge, and power. Kahera is even cheeky enough to allow musings on the mosque from the great poet, Muhammad Iqbal, which foregrounds his point that the mosque is a ubiquitous presence in the world. And it is this fact that makes works like this one so essential to understand. -- Zain Abdullah, Author of Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem (Oxford University Press) The Location of Mosques wrestles with Michel Foucault's ideas on space, while weaving together local and global notions of place, as it interrogates today's public spectacles over the Great Mosque of Cordoba near Madrid alongside the Ground Zero Mosque in Manhattan. Akel Kahera expands our discussion about mosque space by assigning it a genealogy, unpacking various sites as a forensic scientist would dissect a human body to determine its birth history, traumatic relations, and lifestyle markings. It is a fresh and contemplative approach. Animating the book is the question, Who Defines place? But what makes this query so intriguing is how its answers revolve around the interlocking dimensions of space, knowledge, and power. Kahera is even cheeky enough to allow musings on the mosque from the great poet, Muhammad Iqbal, which foregrounds his point that the mosque is a ubiquitous presence in the world. And it is this fact that makes works like this one so essential to understand. -- Zain Abdullah, Author of Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem (Oxford University Press) Author InformationAkel Isma'il Kahera is professor of architecture and sustainable urbanism at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |