Prayer in the City: The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life (Global/Local Islam)

This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urban contexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as »sacred«. Unlike most studies on Muslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material and sensuous practices and urban everyday experience. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, the contributions examine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach which has been widely neglected both in Islamic studies and social sciences. This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urban contexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as ¿sacred±. Unlike most studies on Muslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material and sensuous practices and urban everyday experience. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, the contributions examine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach which has been widely neglected both in Islamic studies and social sciences -- Provided by Publisher Biographical note: Patrick A. Desplat (Dr.) is lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology in Cologne. He is interested in Muslim religious practices, migration, translocality, urban life and has been doing fieldwork in Ethiopia, Kenya and currently Madagascar. Dorothea E. Schulz (PhD) is professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. Her research interests include Muslim religious practices and everyday life, gender, media and public culture in Mali and Uganda »Das Buch ist in vielen Abschnitten vor allem für diejenigen Stadtplaner und Architekten von Interesse, die sich für das Zusammenspiel von Religion und Stadt(gesellschaft) interessieren und sich auch auf neue und ungewohnteEindrücke und Zugänge einlassen möchten.«Tobias Meier, www.urbanophil.net, 20.07.2012Reviewed in:Oriente Moderno, 94 (2014), Roberto Tottoli Review text:" Das Buch ist in vielen Abschnitten vor allem für diejenigen Stadtplaner und Architekten von Interesse, die sich für das Zusammenspiel von Religion und Stadt(gesellschaft) interessieren und sich auch auf neue und ungewohnte Eindrücke und Zugänge einlassen möchten."Tobias Meier, www.urbanophil.net, 20.07.2012