The Masjid in contemporary Islamic Africa
Introduction: 'A Place of Prostration': The Concept of Masjid in Contemporary Africa -- 1. Spaces Both Radical and Revolutionary: The Intersectional Masjid -- 2. Monument, Memory, and Remembrance: Rethinking the Masjid Through Contemporary Heritage Regimes -- 3. "All the Earth is a Mo...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2021
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| In: | Jahr: 2021 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Mosques
Social aspects (Africa, North)
B Mosques Social aspects (Africa) B HISTORY / Africa / General |
| Parallele Ausgabe: | Elektronisch
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| Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: 'A Place of Prostration': The Concept of Masjid in Contemporary Africa -- 1. Spaces Both Radical and Revolutionary: The Intersectional Masjid -- 2. Monument, Memory, and Remembrance: Rethinking the Masjid Through Contemporary Heritage Regimes -- 3. "All the Earth is a Mosque": The Masjid as Environmental Advocate -- 4. Masjids on the Move: Mobility and the Growth of "Portable" Islamic Space -- Conclusion: Looking to the Future: The Masjid as a Space on the Edge -- Bibliography. "The term "intersectionality" was first coined by jurist and critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989 as an approach to human identity and experience that recognizes that individuals are composed of multiple identities that are not mutually exclusive. Importantly, the combination of overlapping, combining, and intersecting identities that compose an individual in turn has the possibility of producing diverse, highly unique experiences of marginalization, disenfranchisement, and oppression. Thus, various modes of oppression, whether they be racism, sexism, xenophobia, etc. are not experienced as singular disenfranchising units, but as a broader interactive system of subjugation"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| ISBN: | 1108473342 |