Akel Ismail Kahera

Reading the Islamic City (eBook, PDF)

Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved after the 7th century CE in the Maghrib (North Africa) and al-Andalusia (Spain). Madinah involves multiple contexts that have socio-religious functions and symbolic connotations related to the faith and practice of Islam, and can be viewed in terms of a number of critiques such as everyday lives, boundaries, utopias, and dystopias. The book considers Foucault's power/knowledge matrix as it applies to an erudite cadre of scholars and legal judgments in the realm of architecture and urbanism. It acknowledges the specificity of power/knowledge insofar as it provides a dominant framework to tackle property rights, custom, noise, privacy, and a host of other subjects. Scholars of urban studies, religion, history, and geography will greatly benefit from this vivid analysis of the relevance of the juridico-discursive practice of Maliki Law in a set of productive or formative discourses in the Islamic city.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216314035
• Artikelnr.: 75140239

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 OneGenealogies of PlaceThe 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