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The transnational mosque : architecture and historical memory in the contemporary Middle East / Kishwar Rizvi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469624952
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BP187 .T736 2015
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Contents:
Turkey and a neo-Ottoman world order: history as ethno-imperialism -- Global Islam and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: an architecture of assimilation -- Iran and Shi.Ai pilgrimage networks: a postrevolutionary ideology -- Grand mosques in the United Arab Emirates: domesticating the transnational -- Epilogue: the mutability of history.
Subject: "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"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction BP187.62 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn923254240

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: agency of history: the symbolic potential of the transnational mosque -- Turkey and a neo-Ottoman world order: history as ethno-imperialism -- Global Islam and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: an architecture of assimilation -- Iran and Shi.Ai pilgrimage networks: a postrevolutionary ideology -- Grand mosques in the United Arab Emirates: domesticating the transnational -- Epilogue: the mutability of history.

"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"--

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