The transnational mosque architecture and historical memory in the contemporary Middle East
"Kishwar Rizvi, drawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity. As Rizvi explains, transnational mosques are structures built through the support of both govern...
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
[2015]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Islamic civilization and muslim networks
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index
- Introduction: agency of history: the symbolic potential of the transnational mosque
- Turkey and a neo-Ottoman world order: history as ethno-imperialism
- Global Islam and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: an architecture of assimilation
- Iran and Shiʻi pilgrimage networks: a postrevolutionary ideology
- Grand mosques in the United Arab Emirates: domesticating the transnational
- Epilogue: the mutability of history