Akel Ismail Kahera

Reading the Islamic City

Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

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Produktbeschreibung

While it seems clear that the shari'ah had a formative influence on property rights, public space and land use, the primary aim of this book is to study what implications the practice of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city (madinah).

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Produktdetails

• Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780739110010
• ISBN-10: 0739110012
• Artikelnr.: 34224697

Autorenporträt

Akel Ismail Kahera is professor of architecture and community planning at Prairie View A& M University and Director of the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture. He is the author of Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space Gender & Aesthetics (University of Texas Press, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Reading The
Islamic City Reading Legal Texts Whose Culture? And Whose City? The
Framework for the Book's Analysis Chapter One Genealogies of Place The
Power/knowledge of Uqbah's Dream The Power/knowledge of Idris's verba
concepta The Power/knowledge of the Jurist-consult Chapter Two Discursive
Practices The Practices of the Maliki School The Practice of Social
Norms/customs The Practice of Legal Opinions Chapter Three Discursive
Readings The Indeterminacy of Marginal Sites The Adjudication of Canonical
Spaces The Interpretation of Territory & Land Chapter Four Discursive
Formulations The Judgment of Self-ordering The Judgment of Informal Orders
The Judgment of Random Incursions Conclusion On Intertextuality On
Discursive Relations On Reading the Madinah Bibliography Glossary Appendix
1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3