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Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba

Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba

Ross, Eric

Hardcover

Literary CriticismUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1580462170
ISBN13: 9781580462174
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Nov 1 2006
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
A book about contemporary urban design, a metaphysical worldview and a cultural process that transcends the pre-colonial/colonial/post-colonial divides.

Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba is a geographical study of the modern Muslim holy city of Touba in Senegal, capital of the Mouride Sufi order. Touba was founded in 1887 by a Sufi shaykh in a moment of mysticillumination. Since the death of the founder in 1927, the Mouride order has designed and built the entire city. Touba is named for Tûbâ, the Tree of Paradise of Islamic tradition. This archetypal tree articulates Islamic conceptions of righteous life on earth, divine judgment, and access to the Hereafter; the city of Touba actualizes this spiritual construct. Important aspects of its configuration, such as the vertical and horizontal alignment of its monumental central shrine complex, its radiating avenues and encircling ring roads, and the actual trees that mark its landscape relate directly to the archetypal tree of Sufi theosophy.

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