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Subjects
Islamic Architecture, Mosques, Islamic architecturePlaces
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Mosques in Norway: the creation and iconography of sacred space
2004, Novus
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Mosques in Norway: the creation and iconography of sacred space
2001, Novus
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations & Notes on transcription
Introduction
Prologue
Aims and objectives
PART ONE
The Creation and Iconogrphy of Sacred Place
Chapter One: Muslim communities in Norway
Introduction
Spaces of transculturation
Finding a place to live
Schooling
Carving an Islamic space
Ethnicising religion
Chapter Two: Transcultural processes and visualising religion
The visibility of religion
The temporalities of cultural memory
The aesthetics of transcultural knowledge
Chapter Three: The polyphony of sacred space
Rethinking iconography
The correlation between sacred space and sacred place
Architecture as space and place
The Islamic style
Chapter Four: The mosque as centre of reference
What's in a term
A grammar of design
A place for women
A typology of Norwegian mosques
Chapter Five: The ornamental mode
Amor infiniti
Geometry as a form of art
The fascination of writing
Photographs, posters and the ambiguity of images
Religious artefacts and Islamic kitsch
Chapter Six: Where will the twain meet?
Perplexed elderly
and transcultural youth
The circularity of the qibla, tawhid and the 'umma
Virtual mosques and interactive 'umma
Notes
PART TWO
Photographic stroll
Typology of mosques
I - Rooms
II - Flats, lofts and basements
III - Converted warehouses and factories
IV - Converted schools
V - Converted houses
VI - Mosque built for that purpose
List of illustrations
Line drawings
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-161) and index.
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