Prayer in the City ：The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life ( Globaler lokaler Islam )

Publication subTitle ：The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life

Publication series ：Globaler lokaler Islam

Author： Desplat Patrick A.;Schulz Dorothea E.  

Publisher： transcript-Verlag‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9783839419458

Subject： O414.1 Thermodynamics

Keyword： 城市社会学,文化人类学、社会人类学,宗教

Language： ENG

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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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Acknowledgments

Introduction. Representations of Space, Place-making and Urban Life in Muslim Societies

PART I UN-/MAKING PLACES

Protecting and Selling the Mosque. Secular Salesmen’s Pride and Fears in Tunis

Ahmad al-Tijani and his Neighbors. The Inhabitants of Fez and their Perceptions of the Zawiya

Zawiya, Zikr and the Authority of Shaykh ‘Al-Pepsi’. The Social in Sacred Place-making in Omdurman, Sudan

A Complete Life. The World of Mawlids in Egypt. Photo Essay

PART II CONTESTED MEANINGS AND PLACES

The Case of the Jaipur Jami Mosque. Prayer and Politics Disruptive

Arenas of Contest? Public Islamic Festivals in Interwar Dar es Salaam

Competing Spaces, Contested Places. Muslim Struggles for Place, Space, and Recognition at a German University

Confronting the Legacy of Antiquity. Pharaonism, Islam, and Archaeology – A Retrospective on Local Islam and Modernity

PART III EVERYDAY PRAYER AND URBAN TOPOGRAPHY

Building Community. Configuring Authority and Identity on the Public Squares of Contemporary Senegalese Sufi Centers

A Fractured Soundscape of the Divine. Female ‘Preachers’, Radio Sermons and Religious Place-making in Urban Mali

A Shrine Gone Urban. The Shrine of Data Ganj Bukhsh, Lahore, as a City within the City

Sufi Spaces in Urban Bangladesh. Gender and Modernity in Contemporary Shrine Culture

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