Space and Muslim Urban Life
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Space and Muslim Urban Life

At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez

Simon O'Meara

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Space and Muslim Urban Life

At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez

Simon O'Meara

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About This Book

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 The Book of Walls, an historical discourse of Islamic law whose primary subject is the wall, the book 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, the book 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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2007
ISBN
9781134170272
Edition
1
Topic
Arquitectura
Subtopic
Planificación urbana y paisajismo

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. SPACE AND MUSLIM URBAN LIFE
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. 1: PREMODERN FEZ
  9. 2: SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS DIMENSIONS OF WALLS
  10. 3: LEGAL DIMENSIONS OF WALLS:
  11. 4: THE JURIDIC BASIS OF THE BOOK OF WALLS
  12. 5: SHAME AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WALLS
  13. 6: ZEF/FEZ
  14. CONCLUSION
  15. Appendix
  16. GLOSSARY
  17. NOTES
  18. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Citation styles for Space and Muslim Urban Life

APA 6 Citation

O’Meara, S. (2007). Space and Muslim Urban Life (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1710251/space-and-muslim-urban-life-at-the-limits-of-the-labyrinth-of-fez-pdf (Original work published 2007)

Chicago Citation

O’Meara, Simon. (2007) 2007. Space and Muslim Urban Life. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1710251/space-and-muslim-urban-life-at-the-limits-of-the-labyrinth-of-fez-pdf.

Harvard Citation

O’Meara, S. (2007) Space and Muslim Urban Life. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1710251/space-and-muslim-urban-life-at-the-limits-of-the-labyrinth-of-fez-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

O’Meara, Simon. Space and Muslim Urban Life. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2007. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.