Towards a Contemporary Mosque: Rethinking the Prophet-Mosque in Medina via Applying Socio-Semiotics
The mosque seizes a crucial importance in the built environment of Muslim culture. The mosque’s urban-architectural and socio-political magnitudes derive from conveying not only religious significations, but also nonreligious ones. Thus, the mosque enjoys a positive coherence emerging from positivel...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Common Ground Publishing
2014
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The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
Year: 2014, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-24 |
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Socio-Semiotics
B Islam B The Mosque B Meaning |
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| Summary: | The mosque seizes a crucial importance in the built environment of Muslim culture. The mosque’s urban-architectural and socio-political magnitudes derive from conveying not only religious significations, but also nonreligious ones. Thus, the mosque enjoys a positive coherence emerging from positively merging the mundane with the sacred. However, this overlapping generates negative impacts, as the mosque’s mundane dimension has undertaken a sacred veil, which has consequently hampered the development of the objective mosque. This paper tries to deconstruct this sacred-profane articulation. For this reason the Prophet-Mosque in Medina, the prototype model of all mosques, will be historically and architecturally rethought. Thanks to adhering to socio-semiotics, the Prophet-Mosque will be analyzed as a sign to discover its expression and content; that is, by unveiling not only its signifying material objects and morphological elements, but also its signified codified and non-codified conveyed ideologies. The aim is to reinterpret the Prophet-Medina-Mosque and develop a concept for a mosque which effectively interacts with the needs and conditions of Muslims and their surrounding societies. It is to propose the notion of the contemporary mosque. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-8641 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v04i01/51081 |