Michelle Apotsos is Associate Professor in African Art History at Williams College, where she specialises in Afro-Islamic architectural sites and landscapes. She is the author of Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa: Lessons from Larabanga (2016) and has published in various journals including African Arts, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, and Material Culture Review. She is a member of the African Studies Association, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, the Society of Architectural Historians and the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative based at MIT.
Preface: Framing the Masjid in Contemporary Islamic Africa; Introduction:
'A Place of Prostration': The Concept of Masjid in Contemporary Africa; 1.
Spaces Both Radical and Revolutionary: The Intersectional Masjid; 2.
Monument, Memory, and Remembrance: Rethinking the Masjid Through
Contemporary Heritage Regimes; 3. 'All the Earth is a Mosque': The Masjid
as Environmental Advocate; 4. Masjids on the Move: Mobility and the Growth
of 'Portable' Islamic Space; Conclusion: Looking to the Future: The Masjid
as a Space on the Edge.
