The Adina Masjid, the largest mosque ever built in IndoPak sub-continent at Hazrat Pandua, A.H. 776/A.D. 1374-75

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 discusses a host of aesthetic leitmotifs that characterize Muslim religious architecture in the United States. It examines the taxonomy of images that define the Ameri...

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...

Students and other interested readers finally have a solid resource that describes the breadth of the evolving modern Australian society.Culture and Customs of Australiais the firs...

The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has focused on ‘cultural...