Transnational Mosque - Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East

Informationen zum Autor Kishwar Rizvi is an architect and professor of Islamic art and architectural history at Yale University. She is the author of The Safavid Dynastic Shrine: Architecture, Religion and Power in Early Modern Iran and Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century . Klappentext Kishwar Rizvi, drawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity. As Rizvi explains, transnational mosques are structures built through the support of both government sponsorship, whether in the home country or abroad, and diverse transnational networks. By concentrating on mosques--especially those built at the turn of the twenty-first century--as the epitome of Islamic architecture, Rizvi elucidates their significance as sites for both the validation of religious praxis and the construction of national and religious ideologies-- Zusammenfassung Drawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, Kishwar Rizvi offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity. As Rizvi explains, transnational mosques are structures built through the support of both government sponsorshipand diverse transnational networks.

Product details

• Authors: Kishwar Rizvi
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781469659121
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-5912-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Islamic Civilization and Musli; Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Religion - World Religions, RELIGION / Islam / History, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious