Description: Space and Muslim Urban Life : At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez, Paperback by O'meara, Simon, ISBN 0415576709, ISBN-13 9780415576703, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book develops academic understanding of Muslim urban space by pursuing the structural logic of the premodern Arab-Muslim city, or medina. With particular reference to Th of Walls, an historical discourse of Islamic law whose primary subject is the wall, th determines the meaning of a wall and then uses it to analyze the space of Fez. One of a growing number of studies to address space as a category of critical analysis, th makes the following contributions to scholarship. Methodologically, it breaks with the tradition of viewing Islamic architecture as a well-defined object observed by a specialist at an aesthetically directed distance; rather, it inhabits the logic of this architecture by rethinking it discursively from within the culture that produced it. Hermeneutically, it sheds new light on one of North Africa's oldest medinas, and thereby illuminates a type of environment still common to much of the Arab-Muslim world. Empirically, it brings to the attention of mainstream scholarship a legal discourse and aesthetic that contributed to the form and longevity of this type of environment; and it exposes a preoccupation with walls and other limits in premodern urban Arab-Muslim culture, and a mythical paradigm informing the foundation narratives of a number of historic medinas. Presenting a fresh perspective for the understanding of Muslim urban society and thought, this innovative study will be of interest to students and researchers of Islamic studies, architecture and sociology.
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Book Title: Space and Muslim Urban Life : At the Limits of the Labyrinth of F
Number of Pages: 162 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Space and Muslim Urban Life : at the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Urban & Land Use Planning, Construction, Islamic Studies, Buildings / Religious, General, Islam / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year: 2010
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Simon O'meara
Item Length: 6.1 in
Subject Area: Law, Religion, Architecture, House & Home, Social Science
Item Width: 9.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
