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Reading the Islamic City
Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment
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2011
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Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved after the 7th century CE in the Maghrib (North Africa) and al-Andalusia (Spain). Madinah involves multiple contexts that have socio-religious functions and symbolic connotations related to the faith and practice of Islam, and can be viewed in terms of a number of critiques such as everyday lives, boundaries, utopias, and dystopias. The book considers Foucault’s power/knowledge matrix as it applies to an erudite cadre of scholars and legal judgments in the realm of architecture and urbanism. It acknowledges the specificity of power/knowledge insofar as it provides a dominant framework to tackle property rights, custom, noise, privacy, and a host of other subjects. Scholars of urban studies, religion, history, and geography will greatly benefit from this vivid analysis of the relevance of the juridico-discursive practice of Maliki Law in a set of productive or formative discourses in the Islamic city.
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Edition
1/2011
Copyright Year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1001-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7222-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
144
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
List of Illustrations No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 01. Genealogies of Place No access Pages 1 - 28
Chapter 02. Discursive Practices No access Pages 29 - 50
Chapter 03. Discursive Readings No access Pages 51 - 74
Chapter 04. Discursive Formulations No access Pages 75 - 96
Conclusion No access Pages 97 - 112
Bibliography No access Pages 113 - 120
Glossary No access Pages 121 - 128
Appendix 1: The Islamic City: A Conceptual Matrix No access Pages 129 - 130
Appendix 2 No access Pages 131 - 132
Appendix 3 No access Pages 133 - 134
Index No access Pages 135 - 144
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