The Friday Mosque in the City (eBook)

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction 1

A. Hilal Ug¿urlu and Suzan Yalman

Section I: Spatial Liminalities: Walls, Enclosures, and Beyond 19

Liminal Spaces in the Great Mosque of Cordoba: Urban Meaning

and Politico-Liturgical Practices 21

Susana Calvo Capilla

Lahore's Badshahi Masjid: Spatial Interactions of the Sacred and the Secular 51

Mehreen Chida-Razvi

City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Holy Sites in Jerusalem

During the Mamluk Period 75

Fadi Ragheb

Section II: Creating New Destinations, Constructing New Sacreds 123

Sanctifying Konya: The Thirteenth-Century Transformation of the

Seljuk Friday Mosque into a 'House of God' 125

Suzan Yalman

Inviolable Thresholds, Blessed Palaces, and Holy Friday Mosques:

The Sacred Topography of Safavid Isfahan 157

Farshid Emami

From the Kutubiyya to Tinmal: The Sacred Direction in Mu'minid Performance 197

Abbey Stockstill

Section III: Liminality and Negotiating Modernity 219

Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations

in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul 221

A. Hilâl Ug¿urlu

Urban Morphology and Sacred Space: The Mashhad Shrine During the

Late Qajar and Pahlavi Periods 251

May Farhat

Towards a New Typology of Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe,

Including Russia and Turkey 277

Nebahat Avcioglu

Author Biographies 313