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The Making of the Mosque: A Survey of Religious Imperatives

The Making of the Mosque: A Survey of Religious Imperatives

Ayyad, Essam

Hardcover

Series: Islamic History and Thought, Book 15

IslamGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1463207271
ISBN13: 9781463207274
Publisher: Gorgias Pr Llc
Published: May 22 2019
Pages: 494
Weight: 1.82
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the absence of reliable archaeological evidence, the question of how the mosque was made represents a real challenge. Its origin remains moot despite many attempts to settle the question. This study sets out to explore whether early Islam, within the framework of the Prophet's teachings and practices, as well as the Qurʾān, might have provided the necessary prompts for the making of the mosque and the shaping of its essential functional and architectural features. It also investigates how such religious prompts may have interacted with the political, cultural and socio-economic contexts in which the mosque type materialized. As such, this book scrutinizes two dominant tendencies regarding the mosque type, the modern Western views on its non-Islamic origins and the Islamic legalist views on what it should look like.

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