The Making of the Mosque : : A Survey of Religious Imperatives /

The Making of the Mosque : : A Survey of Religious Imperatives / / Essam Ayyad.

The fact that many features are standard to the oldest surviving mosques suggests that a canonical type, mostly a courtyard surrounded by four porticoes, did exist early in Islamic history. While the structure built by the Prophet in Madina, soon after the Hijra in 622 AD, is believed by many to hav...

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Ayyad, Essam,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (493 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • TRANSLITERATION
  • CHARTS, TABLES, PLATES AND FIGURES
  • CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION-AIM AND SCOPE
  • 1.1 WHY HAS THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT FOR MOSQUE EVOLUTION BEEN UNDERESTIMATED TO DATE?
  • 1.2 DOMINANT PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROPHET AND HIS HOMELAND
  • 1.3 PROBLEMS WITH THESE VIEWS
  • 1.4 QUESTIONS AND METHODOLOGY
  • CHAPTER 2. SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY MOSQUES
  • 2.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 2.2 ARABIC LITERARY SOURCES
  • 2.3 OTHER EXISTING EVIDENCE
  • 2.4 CONCLUSION
  • CHAPTER 3. STUDYING ḤADĪTH
  • 3.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 3.2 ḤADĪTH IN MODERN SCHOLARSHIP
  • 3.3 HISTORY OF ḤADĪTH TRANSMISSION
  • 3.4 DIALECTICS ABOUT THE AUTHORITATIVENESS OF THE TRADITION
  • 3.5 CONCLUSION
  • CHAPTER 4. THE 'HOUSE OF THE PROPHET' OR THE 'MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET'?
  • 4.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 4.2 EXISTING THEORIES ON THE PROPHET'S BUILDING
  • 4.3 THE 'HOUSE OF THE PROPHET' THEORY
  • 4.4 THE 'MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET' THEORY
  • 4.5 ḤADĪTH AND THE 'MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET'
  • 4.6 THE QURʾĀN AND THE 'MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET'
  • 4.7 OTHER MOSQUES IN THE TIME OF THE PROPHET
  • 4.8 CONCLUSION
  • CHAPTER 5. A PROPHETIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE MOSQUE: LAYOUT AND ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS
  • 5.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 5.2 STATUS OF THE MOSQUE
  • 5.3 SITE
  • 5.4 MOSQUE LAYOUT
  • 5.5 ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS OF THE MOSQUE
  • 5.6 CONCLUSION
  • CHAPTER 6. A PROPHETIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE MOSQUE: ELABORATION AND DECORATION
  • 6.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 6.2 DISCUSSING ANTI-BUILDING TRADITIONS
  • 6.3 MOSQUE-RELATED ḤADĪTHS: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
  • 6.4 DECORATION
  • 6.5 CONCLUSION
  • CHAPTER 7. EVOLUTION OF MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE: BETWEEN 'ORTHODOXY' AND OTHER MODALITIES
  • 7.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 7.2 EVOLUTION OF THE MOSQUE UNDER THE RĀSHIDŪN
  • 7.3 EVOLUTION OF THE MOSQUE UNDER THE UMAYYADS
  • 7.4 CONCLUSION
  • CHAPTER 8. CONCLUSIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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