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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Main Author: Hegazy, Ossama (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Common Ground Publishing 2014
In: The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
Year: 2014, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-24
Further subjects:B Socio-Semiotics
B Islam
B The Mosque
B Meaning
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