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The Friday Mosque in the City : Liminality, Ritual, and Politics.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East SeriesPublisher: Bristol : Intellect, Limited, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (342 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781789383041
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Friday Mosque in the CityDDC classification:
  • 726.2
LOC classification:
  • NA4670 .U387 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction A. Hilâl Uğurlu and Suzan Yalman -- Section I: Spatial Liminalities: Walls, Enclosures, and Beyond -- Liminal Spaces in the Great Mosque of Cordoba: Urban Meaning and Politico-Liturgical Practices Susana Calvo Capilla -- Lahore's Badshahi Masjid: Spatial Interactions of the Sacredand the Secular Mehreen Chida-Razvi -- City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Muslim Holy Sitesin Jerusalem during the Mamluk PeriodFadi Ragheb -- Section II: Creating New Destinations, Constructing New Sacreds -- Sanctifying Konya: The Thirteenth-Century Transformation of the Seljuk Friday Mosque into a 'House of God' Suzan Yalman -- Inviolable Thresholds, Blessed Palaces, and Holy Friday Mosques: The Sacred Topography of Safavid Isfahan Farshid Emami -- From the Kutubiyya to Tinmal: The Sacred Direction in Mu'minid Performance Abbey Stockstill -- Section III: Liminality and Negotiating Modernity -- Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul A. Hilâl Uğurlu -- Urban Morphology and Sacred Space: The Mashhad Shrine during the Late Qajar and Pahlavi Periods May Farhat -- Towards a New Typology of Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, Including Russia and Turkey Nebahat Avcıoğlu -- Author Biographies -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: Edited volume exploring the dynamic relationship between the Friday Mosque and the city. While the Friday mosque and the 'Islamic City' have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this volume specifically examines the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between sacred and urban spaces. 101 col. illus.
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Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction A. Hilâl Uğurlu and Suzan Yalman -- Section I: Spatial Liminalities: Walls, Enclosures, and Beyond -- Liminal Spaces in the Great Mosque of Cordoba: Urban Meaning and Politico-Liturgical Practices Susana Calvo Capilla -- Lahore's Badshahi Masjid: Spatial Interactions of the Sacredand the Secular Mehreen Chida-Razvi -- City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Muslim Holy Sitesin Jerusalem during the Mamluk PeriodFadi Ragheb -- Section II: Creating New Destinations, Constructing New Sacreds -- Sanctifying Konya: The Thirteenth-Century Transformation of the Seljuk Friday Mosque into a 'House of God' Suzan Yalman -- Inviolable Thresholds, Blessed Palaces, and Holy Friday Mosques: The Sacred Topography of Safavid Isfahan Farshid Emami -- From the Kutubiyya to Tinmal: The Sacred Direction in Mu'minid Performance Abbey Stockstill -- Section III: Liminality and Negotiating Modernity -- Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul A. Hilâl Uğurlu -- Urban Morphology and Sacred Space: The Mashhad Shrine during the Late Qajar and Pahlavi Periods May Farhat -- Towards a New Typology of Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, Including Russia and Turkey Nebahat Avcıoğlu -- Author Biographies -- Index -- Back Cover.

Edited volume exploring the dynamic relationship between the Friday Mosque and the city. While the Friday mosque and the 'Islamic City' have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this volume specifically examines the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between sacred and urban spaces. 101 col. illus.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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