Making and remaking mosques in Senegal

In the Muslim world, mosques function as places of worship rather than “congregations” or community centers. Muslims pray in any mosque that is convenient, since they are not consi...

This chapter sheds light on the foundational Timurid period in Afghan history during the fifteenth century that saw important and enduring religious institutions founded in the cap...

Abstract Maurice Wiles was Regus Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1970-1991. To celebrate his seventieth birthday, a group of distinguished fri...

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...

Bressers, Rosenbaum, and their contributors analyze what, until recently, has been among the least examined issues implicit in the growing global discourse about sustainable develo...

Djibril Diop Mambéty’s exuberant, inventive and urgent filmTouki Bouki(The Journey of the Hyena) (1973) follows a young couple, Mory (Magaye Niang) and Anta (Mareme Niang), who dre...

Abstract Tinsel and Rust tells the story of Hollywood’s role in the making (and the remaking) of the Rust Belt in the United States. Since the 1970s, filmic represen...