The Transnational Mosque Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East / Kishwar Rizvi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rizvi, Kishwar, author.

Series:

Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious life--Islam.

Religious life.

Mosques.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kishwar Rizvi, drawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity. As Rizvi explains, transnational mosques are structures built through the support of both government sponsorship, whether in the home country or abroad, and diverse transnational networks. By concentrating on mosques--especially those built at the turn of the twenty-first century--as the epitome of Islamic architecture, Rizvi elucidates their significance as sites for both the validation of religious praxis and the construction of national and religious ideologies-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: agency of history: the symbolic potential of the transnational mosque

Turkey and a neo-Ottoman world order: history as ethno-imperialism

Global Islam and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: an architecture of assimilation

Iran and Shiʻi pilgrimage networks: a postrevolutionary ideology

Grand mosques in the United Arab Emirates: domesticating the transnational

Epilogue: the mutability of history.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908435-6-2

1-4696-2117-7

1-4696-2495-8

OCLC:

933516669