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The Mosque

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2010
Refreshingly candid and at times contradictory, not to mention multidisciplinary and entirely provocative, this book’s alternative and polished graphic and design immediately places it outside mainstream architecture texts on contemporary mosque design.
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Formation of Muslim communities in the Russian Far North: problems of adaptation and the birth of new identities

Историческая этнология
The article examines how migration processes to the Far North regions have led to the creation of Islamic communities, Muslim infrastructure and new identities in cities in the regions of the Russian Arctic. The work is based on a number of field studies
Arbakhan K. Magomedov, Magomedemin М. Gadzhiev   +1 more
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Cult Monuments in the Golden Horde (origin, evolution, and tradition) » [PDF]

Золотоордынское обозрение, 2015
The article analyzes the religious monuments of the Golden Horde. It addresses such categories of buildings as mosques, minarets, madrasahs, khanaka and mausoleums.
Emma Zilivinskaya
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Preserving traditional mosques in Madinah [PDF]

, 2019
Preserving relevant traditional mosques was another trend with respect to the evolution of the contemporary mosque architecture in Madinah. The trend was inspired by the way the Prophet’s Mosque successfully integrated tradition into its own avant-garde ...
Omer, Spahic
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Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design: Retrospective Reflections on the Development of a Student‐Centred Masters in Systems Thinking

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
wiley   +1 more source

The Mosque

, 2013
The act of prostration is a ‘part’ of the Islamic formal prayer service which is known as Salaat. It is curious that the Islamic house of wor-ship is not generally known as Bait us Salaat or Bait ul Ibaadah (re-spectively, house of formal prayer or house of worship) and that the more utilitarian term masjid, derived from the Muslim holy book, the Quran,
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“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
wiley   +1 more source

Isaccea and ferry across the Danube in the 1770s - 1870s according to cartography and iconography

Tyragetia, 2020
The article is devoted to the publication and analysis of iconographic and cartographic sources on the topography and planography of the town of Isaccea and the adjacent area of the Danube crossing in the 1770s - 1870s.
Igor Sapozhnikov
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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
wiley   +1 more source

Between Critical and Uncritical Understandings: A Case Study Analyzing the Claims of Islamophobia Made in the Context of the Proposed ‘Super-Mosque’ in Dudley, England

Societies, 2013
Research highlights how usage and claims of Islamophobia tend to be simplistic and without nuance. Using a case study approach, this article considers the claims of Islamophobia made in relation to the proposed Dudley ‘super-mosque’.
Chris Allen
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