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  • The Place of the Mosque

    Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power

    by Akel Ismail Kahera ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault’s analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the “ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space.” This book uses Foucault’s framework to illuminate how mosques have been threatened in the past, from the Cordóba Mosque in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centres

    by Akel Kahera, Latif Abdulmalik, Craig Anz ...
    The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith. 'Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers' provides an easy-to-use and practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300 line drawings.Case studies of urban mosques in New York, Washington, Boston, and London and Birmingham ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World

    by Akel Ismail Kahera, Sultan Barakat, Suzanne Ghadanfar, Ahmed Qadir Ahmed, Aymen Aiblu, Munazzah Akhtar, Fatma Al Habsi, Asser Al Hamoud0, Moza Al Obaidan1, Mostafa Alani2, Howayda Al-Harithy3, Dhirgham Alobaydi4, Yusra Alvi5, Shama Anbrine6, Aamna Azad7, Rasem Badran8, Daria Bobarykina9, Mohamad El Chamaa0, Kokan Grchev1, Abbas M. Hassan2, Huzam Kaddoura3, Mohd Faris Khamidi4, Emine Filiz Kölmek5, Muhammed Madandola6, Mark David Major7, Lamiaa Mostafa8, Rabia Ahmed Qureshi9, Chawan Osman M. Rasheed0, Mohamed Eskandar Shah1, Masoumeh Shafiee2, Ali Akbar Tajmazinani3, Heba O. Tannous4 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    To tackle the paucity of adequate housing in the Muslim World, Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World brings together a cohort of essays that deal with the the latest approaches, policy discussions, attendant research methodologies and recommendations. The volume's multidisciplinary contributors- academics, practitioners, architects, planners, researchers, urbanists, ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Reading the Islamic City

    Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

    by Akel Ismail Kahera ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    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 ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Deconstructing the American Mosque

    Space, Gender, and Aesthetics

    by Akel Ismail Kahera ...
    From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and the plurality of design nuances reflect the heterogeneity of the American Muslim community itself, which embodies a whole ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    by Mehran Kamrava ...
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  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    by David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... Read more

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  • Missions Impossible

    Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

    by John Waterbury ...
    A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab worldNone of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies—insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive ... Read more

    $50.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abu Dhabi's Vision 2030: An Ongoing Journey Of Economic Development

    by Linda Low ...
    This book aims to tell the Abu Dhabi story in economic development, from its past dominance in oil to its economic vision for the future. More than being an exemplar of industrial restructuring and diversification from a resource-based to a 21st century knowledge-based economy and society, Abu Dhabi emphasises its cultural legacy and tradition as an environmental advocate for green and sustainable ... Read more

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  • Looking Back

    How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger by 2050

    by Nadeem Ul Haque ...
    By 2050, Pakistan had achieved a miracle. It had transformed itself from a poverty-ridden, malnourished, corrupt and aid dependent country in 2015 to qualifying for High Income category by the World Bank and the top decile in both the Competitiveness index and Social Progress Index by 2050. Where once travel advisories warned people from visiting, it is now key destination for foreign investors, ... Read more

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  • The New Post-oil Arab Gulf

    Managing People and Wealth

    Edited by David Weir, Zeinab Karake-Shalhoub ...
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  • Social Change in the Gulf Region

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Md Mizanur Rahman, Amr Al-Azm ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation of Gulf societies in the last few decades. Whilst the Gulf region has at times been seen as impervious to this natural phenomenon of transformation—timeless, never changing, ... Read more

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