The Friday mosque in the city : liminality, ritual, and politics / edited by A. Hilâl Uǧurlu and Suzan Yalman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Uğurlu, A. Hilâl, editor.

Yalman, Suzan, editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Critical studies in architecture of the Middle East

Critical studies in architecture of the Middle East series ; sixth book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mosques--Design and construction--Social aspects.

Mosques.

City planning--Religious aspects--Islam.

City planning.

Jumʻah.

Mosques--Design and construction.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 330 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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 Sacred and the Secular / Mehreen Chida-Razvi

City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Muslim Holy Sites in Jerusalem during the Mamluk Period / Fadi 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. Hilal Ugurlu

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 Avcioglu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

1789383021

9781789383027

OCLC:

1140780605

Publisher Number:

99986792372