Prayer in the City

Description:

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 --

subjects: Sacred space,  Islamic shrines,  Pilgrims and pilgrimages,  Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages,  Muslims,  Rites and ceremonies,  Social life and customs,  City and town life