Place of the Mosque - Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power

The Place of the Mosque probes a host of discursive formations-spaces of public assembly and social interaction, quotidian practices, disputed sites, and biopolitics-while critiquing their peculiar anomalies. It goes beyond architectural criticism to emphasize the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of place and space.

List of contents

Chapter One: On the Genealogy of Place
Chapter Two: Resemblances and Similitudes
Chapter Three: Architecture and Ontology
Chapter Four: Place, Biopolitics, and Legal Discourses

About the author

Akel Isma'il Kahera is professor of architecture and sustainable urbanism at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

Summary

The Place of the Mosque probes a host of discursive formations—spaces of public assembly and social interaction, quotidian practices, disputed sites, and biopolitics—while critiquing their peculiar anomalies. It goes beyond architectural criticism to emphasize the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of place and space.

Product details

• Authors: Akel Ismail Kahera, Akel Isma'il Kahera, Akel Isma''il Kahera, Kahera Akel Ismail
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781793646873
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-687-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space; TOPOSOPHIA THINKING PLACEMAKIN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, Religious buildings, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Architecture: religious buildings, Structuralism & Post-structuralism