Prayer in the City: The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life (global local Islam) - Softcover

Patrick A. Desplat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837619451 ISBN 13: 9783837619454

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick A. Desplat (Dr.) is lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology in Cologne. He is interested in Muslim religious practices, migration, translocality, urban life and has been doing fieldwork in Ethiopia, Kenya and currently Madagascar. Dorothea E. Schulz (PhD) is professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. Her research interests include Muslim religious practices and everyday life, gender, media and public culture in Mali and Uganda.

About this edition

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3837619451
• ISBN 13: 9783837619454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Patrick A. Desplat, Dorothea E. Schulz