Designing the ‘anti-mosque’: identity, religion and affect in contemporary European mosque design

Verkaaik, Oskar

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8676.2012.00198.x

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“…My analysis of the monument dialogs with Verkaaik's (2012) text about mosque construction. One point that Verkaaik's interpretation addresses is precisely the expectation that each mosque converses with an architectural tradition, which does not mean that innovations do not occur.…”

Section: A Monument In Spacementioning

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Public spaces and religion: an idea to debate, a monument to analyze

Giumbelli

2018

Horiz. antropol.

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The text presents the first results of a study conducted in Brazil about the construction of a monument that represents a Catholic saint. The analysis is developed in two planes. One focuses on discourses that constitute something as “public”. The other focuses on spatial dimensions: how material features influence configurations of public spaces. Each theoretical exploration corresponds to an analysis of certain facets of the monument, which are respectively related to the debates that it has triggered and the architectural solutions generated. The articulation between these two dimensions is inspired by thematizations and debates about what is public art. The aim is to contribute to the theoretical discussion and the empirical analysis of situations involving the presence of religion in public spaces.

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Section: A Monument In Spacementioning

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Public spaces and religion: an idea to debate, a monument to analyze

Giumbelli

2018

Horiz. antropol.

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“…In the Qur'an, the mosque is expressed in two terms. Firstly, it refers to the Muslims place of worship corresponding to the places of worship of other religions such as church and synagogue [11]- [13]. Like the example in Bayt al-Muqadis, the holy land for the three Abrahamic religions -Judaism, Christianity and Islam.…”

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Sufism in the Architectural Typology of the Melaka Tengkera Mosque, Malaysia

Bahauddin

Ahmad

2018

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Islam grew rapidly in the Malay world at the end of the 13th and early 14th centuries AD spread by the missionaries from the Arab countries, India, Iraq and China. It came along with the teaching of Sufism or tasawwuf -the esoteric dimension of Islam supported and complemented by exoteric Sharia (law) practices of Islam. Mosques became the significant landmarks for this religion. The mosque construction development since the time of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) demonstrated changes. These can be used as thematic resources and theories in artistic architectural language. The mosque architectural typology has contextual values reflecting identities and models needed for the preservation of today's mosque heritage especially in epistemology and conception. The human's roles as caliphs with a Sufism psyche are the most important players in mosque construction. However, there were significant differences in the contemporary mosque typology aesthetical symbols and Islamic images compared to the ones before the 16th century; evident before the Western powers' colonisation of Malaysia. Traditionally the mosque architectural typology was without symbols, minarets or domes. It continued to fade after the colonisation period despite the deeply rooted simple Sufism approach that appeared for four hundred years before. The Melaka Tengkera Mosque built in the 18th century AD, demonstrated this simplicity with a hybrid value and characteristics of Sufism, the regional and Chinese architectural influences. This paper employed a qualitative method specifically in ethnography and phenomenology approaches supported by architectural documentation in emphasising the construction language. It analyses this mosque on the influential values of the Malay and Chinese architectural understanding and the teaching of Sufism. The simplicity reflected the influence of Sufism in the Islamic development among the Malay communities as visible in the mosque in the midst of the changes of cultural affinities.

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“…As we have described elsewhere (Verkaaik 2012), there was internal debate within the mosque committee about the design. Some members wanted a 'modern' design, functional and affordable, that would resemble the first mosque of the Prophet and would not put off non-Muslim neighbourhood residents.…”

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Managing Mosques in the Netherlands: Constitutional versus Culturalist Secularism

Verkaaik

Arab

2017

Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?

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This article engages with the emergent ethnographical study of secular practice by focusing on how local bureaucracies manage the Muslim public presence in the Netherlands, particularly the construction of new mosques and the amplifying of the Muslim call to prayer. We argue that what started as the 'Islam debate' , itself provoked by growing populist articulations of the fear of Islam, has gradually developed into a conflict in the practice of local governance about the meaning of secularism. Whereas the public and political debate about mosque issues is often dominated by what we call a 'culturalist' or 'nativist' form of secularism, in practice bureaucrats are often led by a 'constitutional secularism' that protects the constitutional rights of Dutch Muslims. Thus, in its practical application, constitutional secularism is one way of tackling Islamophobia and protecting the rights of religious minorities in general. Moving beyond the genealogical study and the deconstructivist critique of secularism by such authors as Talal Asad and Wendy Brown, we show that the ethnographic study of actual secular practice remains crucially important to avoiding monolithic text-based understandings of the secular as inherently dominating the religious.

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Designing the ‘anti-mosque’: identity, religion and affect in contemporary European mosque design

Cited by 25 publications

References 17 publications

Public spaces and religion: an idea to debate, a monument to analyze

Public spaces and religion: an idea to debate, a monument to analyze

Sufism in the Architectural Typology of the Melaka Tengkera Mosque, Malaysia

Managing Mosques in the Netherlands: Constitutional versus Culturalist Secularism

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