Making Muslim space in North America and Europe

Barbara Daly Metcalf.
Author/Creator:
Metcalf, Barbara, 1941- author
Resource Type:
Book
Publication:
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1996]
Edition:
Reprint 2019
Copyright Notice:
1996
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xix, 264 p. ) ill. ;

Details

Series Title:
  • Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies ; 22
  • Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies Series
Note:
  • Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
  • English
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TOWARD ISLAMIC ENGLISH? A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Sacred Words, Sanctioned Practice, New Communities -- 1. Muslim Space and the Practice of Architecture: A Personal Odyssey -- 2. Transcending Space: Recitation and Community among South Asian Muslims in Canada -- 3. "This Is a Muslim Home": Signs of Difference in the African-American Row House -- 4. "Refuge" and "Prison": Islam, Ethnicity, and the Adaptation of Space in Workers' Housing in France -- 5. Making Room versus Creating Space: The Construction of Spatial Categories by Itinerant Mouride Traders -- 6. New Medinas: The Tablighi Jama'at in America and Europe -- 7. Island in a Sea of Ignorance: Dimensions of the Prison Mosque -- 8. A Place of Their Own: Contesting Spaces and Defining Places in Berlin's Migrant Community -- 9. Stamping the Earth with the Name of Allah: Zikr and the Sacralizing of Space among British Muslims -- 10. Karbala as Sacred Space among North American Shi'a: "Every Day Is Ashura, Everywhere Is Karbala" -- 11 . The Muslim World Day Parade and "Storefront" Mosques of New York City -- 12. Nationalism, Community, and the Islamization of Space in London -- 13. Engendering Muslim Identities: Deterritorialization and the Ethnicization Process in France -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary:
Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political issues that dominate today's headlines. The authors emphasize the cultural strength and creativity of communities that draw upon Islamic symbols and practices to define "Muslim space" against the background of a non-Muslim environment. -- The range of perspectives is broad, encompassing middle-class professionals, mosque congregations, factory workers in France and the north of England, itinerant African traders, and prison inmates in New York. The truism that "Islam is a religion of the word" takes on concrete meaning as these disparate communities find ways to elaborate word-centered ritual and to have the visual and aural presence of sacred words in the spaces they inhabit. -- Publisher description.
Subject:
ISBN:
  • 9780520917439
  • 052091743X
  • 9780585091426
  • 0585091420
  • 0-520-91743-X
  • 0-585-09142-0
Other ISBN:
  • 9780520204041
  • 0520204042
  • 9780520204034
  • 0520204034
  • 0-520-20404-2
  • 0-520-20403-4
LC Classification:
BP67.A1 .M483 1996
Catalog Record ID:
991036791451403811
Language:
English

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