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

By Patrick A. Desplat and Dorothea E. Schulz

Book information

Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Year
2012
ISBN
9783837619454, 9783839419458
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3255990 bytes)
Series
Global Local Islam
Pages
\315
Time added
2021-05-11 15:41:49
AnthropologyJewish Studiessocial science

Description

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.

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