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The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power

The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power

Kahera, Akel Ismail

Hardcover

Series: Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space

PhilosophyIslamGeneral Architecture

ISBN10: 1793646872
ISBN13: 9781793646873
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 22 2022
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault's analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space. This book uses Foucault's framework to illuminate how mosques have been threatened in the past, from the Cordóba Mosque in the eighth century, to the development of Moorish aesthetics in the United States in the nineteenth century, to the clashes surrounding the building of mosques in the West in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Akel Kahera uses Foucault's genealogy to elaborate on and study the subjects that are caught in the emergence of a battle--the social and political will to power, the networks of power, and the rituals of power--within the interstitial space. In going beyond individual buildings to broader geographical and genealogical dimensions of the power struggles, The Place of the Mosque reconciles the public space experience, governmentality, and micro powers, paving the way for a new philosophical language. Expanding architectural and urban regional approaches, Kahera shows the biopolitical significance of the problem of space.

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