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The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault’s analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the “ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space.” This book uses Foucault’s framework to illuminate how mosques have been threatened in the past, from the Cordóba Mosque in the eighth century, to the development of Moorish aesthetics in the United States in the nineteenth century, to the clashes surrounding the building of mosques in the West in the twentieth and twen

يُمثّل كتاب "مصارع العُشّاق" حلقةً في سلسلةِ حلقاتِ الكتاباتِ عن الحُبِّ في الحضارةِ العربية الإسلامية. فقد جاء تأليفُ جعفر السراج لكتابه هذا بعد أن عرفت المكتبة العربية حوالي أربعة عشر كتاباً ورسالة في الموضوع قبله. كما جرى تأليف عدد مِن الكتب في الموضوع بعده تأثّر أغلبها به تأثراً كبيراً. ذلك أن هذه الحلقة تميزت بقوة إشعاعها. يبقى لكتاب مصارع العشاق، في موضوعه، بين جميع كتب الحب والأحباب التي ظهرت قبله وبعده، مذاق خاص يستطيبه قارئ الكتاب في أي عصر كان. ومرد ذلك إلى ما كشفت عنه هذه الأضواء مما تميز به هذا الكتاب هدفاً وأسلوباً.

The labour market in

Selected papers presented to the 10th International Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance held in March 2015.

This book presents a study of the cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments, examination of devotional objects, and analysis of ideas of ‘holiness’, the book depicts the practices of living religion and explores the common heritage of all three monotheistic faiths.

The relationship between the workings of memory and the formation of culture is intriguingly close in the world of medieval

The Routledge Handbook of

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East.