Product Description: Kishwar Rizvi, drawing on the multifaceted history of the Middle East, offers a richly illustrated analysis of the role of transnational mosques in the construction of contemporary Muslim identity. As Rizvi explains, transnational mosques are structures built through the support of both government sponsorship, whether in the home country or abroad, and diverse transnational networks...read more

Product Description: Young readers learn about mosques, from how they were built and used to the people who used them. Includes full-color photographs and illustrations, sidebars, glossary and index.

Product Description: The Mosque is an extended meditation on a dimension of Islam unfamiliar to most Western readers. The mosque, Rusmir Mahmutïcehajiïc argues, is not an analogue of the Christian church, not least because in Islam there is no priesthood and no institutionalized hierarchy...read more

Product Description: Since its first publication, this superbly produced volume has become the classic in its field. It traces the history and development of the mosque since the time of the prophet Muhammad, explaining its traditional religious and teaching role in Muslim society as well as its architectural and decorative features...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the history, design, construction, and uses of mosques and describes some notable examples.

A visit to a London mosque provides information on the origins and main principles of Islam, Muslim festivals, and the Islamic way of life.

Describes what happens inside a mosque and introduces the Muslim faith (view table of contents)

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Product Description: * Provides a valuable new insight into contemporaneous mosque theory and design * Defines current mosques within the global context of comparative religions * No other building type is so charged with symbolism * This book will be of particular interest to Islamic/Muslim architects worldwide, students, historians and religion leader...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Introduces the Islamic faith, explains why and how mosques were constructed, and looks at the people who worked and worshiped at the mosque (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Pereira, Jose

Product Description: Book by Davies, John Gordon