Screen LibraryPrayer in the city : the making of muslim sacred places and urban life /
This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urban contexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as sacred . Unlike most studies on Muslim communit...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Globaler lokaler islam
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| Summary: |
This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urban contexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as sacred . Unlike most studies on Muslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material and sensuous practices and urban everyday experience. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, the contributions examine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach which has been widely neglected both in Islamic studies and social sciences. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (314 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839419458 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | BP187 |
| CLC: | B968 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Protecting and Selling the Mosque / Ahmad al-Tijani and his Neighbors / Zawiya, Zikr and the Authority of Shaykh Al-Pepsi / A Complete Life / The Case of the Jaipur Jami Mosque / Arenas of Contest? / Competing Spaces, Contested Places / Confronting the Legacy of Antiquity / Building Community / A Fractured Soundscape of the Divine / A Shrine Gone Urban / Sufi Spaces in Urban Bangladesh / Contributors. |