Reading the Islamic City - Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

Informationen zum Autor Akel Ismail Kahera is professor of architecture and community planning at Prairie View A& M University and Director of the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture. He is the author of Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space Gender & Aesthetics (University of Texas Press, 2002). Klappentext While it seems clear that the shari'ah had a formative influence on property rights, public space and land use, the primary aim of this book is to study what implications the practice of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city (madinah). Zusammenfassung While it seems clear that the shari’ah had a formative influence on property rights, public space and land use, the primary aim of this book is to study what implications the practice of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city (madinah). Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations IntroductionReading The Islamic CityReading Legal TextsWhose Culture? And Whose City?The Framework for the Book's AnalysisChapter OneGenealogies of PlaceThe Power/knowledge of Uqbah's Dream The Power/knowledge of Idris's verba conceptaThe Power/knowledge of the Jurist-consultChapter TwoDiscursive PracticesThe Practices of the Maliki SchoolThe Practice of Social Norms/customsThe Practice of Legal OpinionsChapter ThreeDiscursive ReadingsThe Indeterminacy of Marginal SitesThe Adjudication of Canonical Spaces The Interpretation of Territory & LandChapter FourDiscursive FormulationsThe Judgment of Self-orderingThe Judgment of Informal Orders The Judgment of Random IncursionsConclusionOn IntertextualityOn Discursive RelationsOn Reading the MadinahBibliographyGlossary Appendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 3

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• Authors: Il, Akel Isma Kahera, Akel Isma&apos Kahera, Akel Ismail Kahera, Akel Isma'il Kahera, Kahera Akel Ismail
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2011
• EAN: 9780739110010
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1001-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Toposophia: Sustainability, Dwelling, Design; Toposophia: Sustainability, Dwelling, Design; Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; LAW / Environmental, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, LAW / Transportation, LAW / Land Use, Islamic Law, History of Architecture, Islamic countries, Systems of law: Islamic law, LAW / Islamic, Environment, transport and planning law: general, Environment, transport & planning law