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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780325703321

Autore

Kahera Akel Ismail <1951->

Titolo

Deconstructing the American mosque : space, gender, and aesthetics / / Akel Ismail Kahera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2002

ISBN

0-292-79836-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

726/.2/0973

Soggetti

Mosques - United States

Architecture - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. The Polemics of Deconstruction -- CHAPTER ONE. Aesthetic Origins and End Conditions -- CHAPTER TWO. Interpretations of Image, Text, and Form -- CHAPTER THREE. Space, Place, and Public Gathering -- CONCLUSION. Reversible Space and Linear Time -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the history and theory of Muslin religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950.