Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe |
Preface and Acknowledgments |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
Toward Islamic English? |
• | Works Cited |
Introduction |
• | Diaspora Muslims and “Space” |
• | Words in the Islamic Tradition |
• | Making a Space For Everyday Ritual and Practice |
• | Claiming a Space in the Larger Community: Mosques, Processions, Contestations |
• | Imagining Muslim Space |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
1. Making a Space for Everyday Ritual and Practice |
1. Muslim Space and the Practice of Architecture |
• | Wimbledon and the Isna Mosque in Plainfield: Interior Realities |
• | The Bai‘tul Islam Mosque, Toronto, and Back to Wimbledon: Externalizing Islam |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
2. Transcending Space |
• | Milad |
• | Zikr |
• | Qur’ankhwani |
• | Ayat-E-Karima |
• | From Home to Mosque |
• | From Performance to Participation |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
3. “This Is a Muslim Home” |
• | The Philadelphia Communities and Congregational Space |
• | “This is a Muslim Home” |
• | Works Cited |
4. “Refuge” and “Prison” |
• | The Foyers in France |
• | West Africans in the Foyers |
• | North African Arabs in the Foyers |
• | Ethnicity in the Foyer: Interaction Between West Africans and Arabs |
• | Conclusion |
• | Works Cited |
5. Making Room versus Creating Space |
• | Mouride History |
• | The Mouride Economy Today |
• | Migration as a Theme in Mouride History |
• | The Mourides’ Spiritual and Spatial Center |
• | Touba in Marseilles |
• | Inside Mouride Space |
• | Invisible Architecture: Choreography, Time, and Space |
• | A New Choreography: Touba Comes to Town |
• | Conclusion |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
6. New Medinas |
• | The Tablighi Jama‘at |
• | Tabligh Abroad |
Three Conversations |
• | Conversation 1 |
• | Conversation 2 |
• | Conversation 3 |
• | Beyond History and the Nation-State |
• | Manzil-i Leila: Reaching Heaven |
• | Conclusion |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
2. Claiming Space in the Larger Community |
7. Island in a Sea of Ignorance |
• | Masjid Sankore: “Medina” for New York’s Prisons |
• | The Conversion of Black Power Militants |
• | A New Pedagogy of the Incarcerated |
• | Notes |
Works Cited |
• | Interviews |
8. A Place of Their Own |
• | Demography, Zoning, and Square Meters |
• | Landscapes of Kreuzberg: the Structural, the Social Structural, and the Antisocial |
• | Little Istanbul |
• | Gurbet: Cinema and Exile |
• | Expressions of Islam Abroad: Alevis and Sunnis |
• | Head Scarves and Alevis |
• | Alevis and Sunnis: Separate Spaces in a Shared World |
• | From Ritual to Revolution |
• | Conclusion: Toponomy, Almanyali, and New Identities |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
9. Stamping the Earth with the Name of Allah |
• | Urs: Midday, Birmingham, May 1989 |
• | Julus |
• | Urs: Ghamkol Sharif, Kohat, Pakistan, October 1989 |
• | Hijra and the Sacralizing of Space |
• | The Sufi Saint as Tamer of the Wilderness |
• | The Spatial Dimensions of Sufi Muslim Individual Identity |
• | Julus and Hijra |
• | Conclusion |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
10. Karbala as Sacred Space among North American Shi‘a |
• | The Nature of Shi‘i Piety |
• | The Imambargah as “Sacred Space” |
• | Muharram 1411: Devotional Activities at the Ja‘ffari Center |
• | The Blood of Husain |
• | “This is Karbala” |
• | Public Ritual: Julus in Toronto |
• | Conclusion |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
11. The Muslim World Day Parade and “Storefront” Mosques of New York City |
• | The Muslim World Day Parade |
“Storefront” Mosques |
• | The Queens Muslim Center |
• | Masjid Al-Falah, Corona, Queens |
• | Al-Fatih Mosque, Brooklyn |
• | Creating Mosques: The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens |
• | Conclusion |
• | Works Cited |
12. Nationalism, Community, and the Islamization of Space in London |
• | Tower Hamlets and the Establishment of Mosques |
• | The Brick Lane Great Mosque and Architectural Conservation |
• | The East London Mosque, the Call to Prayer, and Urban “Noise” |
• | Dawoodi Bohras in West London: Finding a Home |
• | Islam and Definitions of Community in Local Political Arenas |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
13. Engendering Muslim Identities |
• | Diversity Among Muslims in France |
• | Notes Toward a Gendered Approach |
• | The Gendered Politics of Representation in a Multicultural Context |
• | The Gallicization of Maghrebi Values and the Ethnicization of Islam |
• | Conclusion: on Ethnic Revivals and Androcentric Cultural Processes |
• | Notes |
• | Works Cited |
Notes on Contributors |