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

The Place of the Mosque highlights the redemptive longing to build a mosque where the formation of aesthetics is conveyed, and where religious identity and spatial arrangements are represented, as a critical project for the Muslim community in the United States. The Place of the Mosque is a scholarly attempt to reconcile the public space experience and micro powers. It intends to pave the way for a new philosophical language, arising from the assertion that the problem of space assumes biopolitical significance—ruling both the body and space and spatial transformations where governmentality (biopolitical techniques) runs parallel to architecture and urbanism—where the cities are places of surveillance.