Prayer in the City : : The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life /

Prayer in the City : : The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life / / ed. by Dorothea E. Schulz, Patrick A. Desplat.

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 communi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Asher, Catherine B.,
Berriane, Johara,
Hawkins, Simon,
Ross, Eric,
Rozario, Santi,
Samuel, Geoffrey,
Schielke, Samuli,
Schulz, Dorothea E.,
Stauth, Georg,
Strothmann, Linus,
Thielmann, Jörn,
Willemse, Karin,
Zöller, Katharina,
HerausgeberIn:
Desplat, Patrick A.,
Schulz, Dorothea E.,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]
©2012
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Globaler lokaler Islam
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I Un-/Making Places
  • Protecting and Selling the Mosque
  • Ahmad al-Tijani and his Neighbors
  • Zawiya, Zikr and the Authority of Shaykh ‘Al-Pepsi’
  • A Complete Life
  • PART II Contested Meanings and Places
  • The Case of the Jaipur Jami Mosque
  • Arenas of Contest?
  • Competing Spaces, Contested Places
  • Confronting the Legacy of Antiquity
  • PART III Everyday Prayer and Urban Topography
  • Building Community
  • A Fractured Soundscape of the Divine
  • A Shrine Gone Urban
  • Sufi Spaces in Urban Bangladesh
  • Contributors

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