Prayer in the City
The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgments
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Introduction
Seiten 9 - 34 -
PART I Un-/Making Places
Protecting and Selling the Mosque
Seiten 37 - 56 -
Ahmad al-Tijani and his Neighbors
Seiten 57 - 76 -
Zawiya, Zikr and the Authority of Shaykh 'Al-Pepsi'
Seiten 77 - 102 -
A Complete Life
Seiten 103 - 110 -
PART II Contested Meanings and Places
The Case of the Jaipur Jami Mosque
Seiten 113 - 136 -
Arenas of Contest?
Seiten 137 - 170 -
Competing Spaces, Contested Places
Seiten 171 - 184 -
Confronting the Legacy of Antiquity
Seiten 185 - 202 -
PART III Everyday Prayer and Urban Topography
Building Community
Seiten 205 - 238 -
A Fractured Soundscape of the Divine
Seiten 239 - 264 -
A Shrine Gone Urban
Seiten 265 - 288 -
Sufi Spaces in Urban Bangladesh
Seiten 289 - 310 -
Contributors
Seiten 311 - 314
2 May 2012, 314 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-1945-4
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