The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power

The Place of the Mosque explores how mosques have been threatened throughout history, from the Cordóba Mosque in the eighth century to the development of Moorish aesthetics in the nineteenth-century United States to the clashes surrounding the building of mosques in the West in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It reconciles the public space experience, governmentality, and micro powers, paving the way for a new philosophical language.

Format: Hardback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 03 July 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power expands upon Foucault's analysis of other spaces and the ideological conflicts that underpin the controversies of our day [that] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space. The book employs this framework to shed light on the historical threats faced by mosques, ranging from the Cordóba Mosque in the eighth century to the development of Moorish aesthetics in nineteenth-century United States to the clashes surrounding the construction of mosques in the West in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Foucault's genealogy enables us to delve into and examine the subjects caught up in the emergence of a battle—the social and political will to power, the networks of power, and the rituals of power—in the interstitial spaces that define the subjects and create a space that governs both the body and space. By extending architectural and urban regional approaches, Kahera demonstrates the biopolitical significance of the problem of space.

The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power expands upon Foucault's analysis of other spaces and the ideological conflicts that underpin the controversies of our day [that] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space. The book employs this framework to shed light on the historical threats faced by mosques, ranging from the Cordóba Mosque in the eighth century to the development of Moorish aesthetics in nineteenth-century United States to the clashes surrounding the construction of mosques in the West in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Foucault's genealogy enables us to delve into and examine the subjects caught up in the emergence of a battle—the social and political will to power, the networks of power, and the rituals of power—in the interstitial spaces that define the subjects and create a space that governs both the body and space. By extending architectural and urban regional approaches, Kahera demonstrates the biopolitical significance of the problem of space.

Weight: 516g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793646873