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  • Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers

    by Akel Kahera ...
    The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith. 'Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers' provides an easy-to-use and practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300 line drawings.Case studies of urban mosques in New York, Washington, Boston, and London and Birmingham ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • The Place of the Mosque

    Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power

    by Akel Ismail Kahera ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault’s analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the “ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space.” This book uses Foucault’s framework to illuminate how mosques have been threatened in the past, from the Cordóba Mosque in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World

    by Akel Ismail Kahera, Sultan Barakat, Suzanne Ghadanfar, Ahmed Qadir Ahmed, Aymen Aiblu, Munazzah Akhtar, Fatma Al Habsi, Asser Al Hamoud0, Moza Al Obaidan1, Mostafa Alani2, Howayda Al-Harithy3, Dhirgham Alobaydi4, Yusra Alvi5, Shama Anbrine6, Aamna Azad7, Rasem Badran8, Daria Bobarykina9, Mohamad El Chamaa0, Kokan Grchev1, Abbas M. Hassan2, Huzam Kaddoura3, Mohd Faris Khamidi4, Emine Filiz Kölmek5, Muhammed Madandola6, Mark David Major7, Lamiaa Mostafa8, Rabia Ahmed Qureshi9, Chawan Osman M. Rasheed0, Mohamed Eskandar Shah1, Masoumeh Shafiee2, Ali Akbar Tajmazinani3, Heba O. Tannous4 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    To tackle the paucity of adequate housing in the Muslim World, Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World brings together a cohort of essays that deal with the the latest approaches, policy discussions, attendant research methodologies and recommendations. The volume's multidisciplinary contributors- academics, practitioners, architects, planners, researchers, urbanists, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Reading the Islamic City

    Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

    by Akel Ismail Kahera ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved after the 7th century CE in the Maghrib (North Africa) and al-Andalusia (Spain). Madinah ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Deconstructing the American Mosque

    Space, Gender, and Aesthetics

    by Akel Ismail Kahera ...
    From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and the plurality of design nuances reflect the heterogeneity of the American Muslim community itself, which embodies a whole ... Read more

    $18.99 USD