Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics

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INDEX Abdulmalik, Latif Khalid, , , – ; theory of space and form of, , –,  Abiquiu mosque, , , , , , – Abraham and Ismail,  Abu Bakr,  Abu Hanifa,  Abyssinian performers,  activism,  Adam, ,  adobe technique,  aesthetics, , , , , –, , , , , , , –, ; of the American mosque, , , , , , , , ; anomalous, , ; Mande, – ; traditional Muslim, , , , , , , , ,  Africa,  African American Muslims, , , , , , n.; scholars among,  African art,  African slaves,  Agades mosque,  ahl al-Suffah,  Ahl al-Sunnah mosque,  al-Alwani, Taha,  Alexander, Christopher,  Alhambra palace, , ,  Allah, , , , , , , , , ; absence of representations of, ; divine names of,  amal,  ambassadors,  American building practices, , ; and legal issues, , , ,  American landscape, , ,  American mosque: aesthetic language of, , ; design responses to, , , , , , ; division of space within, ; history of, , , , , –; as interpretation of sunnah, , , , ; modernist, , ; oriented towards qiblah, , ; urban, , , –, – American Muslim community, , , , , , , , , , , , ; generational issues within, ; in Miami, , ; in Newark, , ; in New York City, ; population of, n., n.. See also diaspora American Muslim women, , , , , , ,  American Southwest, ,  Andalusia (al-Andalus), , , , ,  Andalusian style, , ,  animism,  Ansar,  anthropologists,  al-Aqmar mosque, ,  Arabia, ,  Arabic writing, . See also calligraphy archeological studies,  architects, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ; non-Muslim,  architectural form, , , , ; borrowing of, ; diversity of,  architectural theory, , , , , ; on characteristics of a good city, , ,  architecture: history of American, , , , ; and Islamic law, , , , , , ; and landscape, , , , ; and urbanism,  art history and historians, , , , , , , , , – passim asabiyyah,  Ashab al-Yameen mosque, ,  Asia, ,  atrio (courtyard),  Austin, Henry,  avant-garde,  Ayesha, , ,  Baghdad State Mosque, , , , , n. Bahithat al-Badiyyah, , n. Bait al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem), , , n. Bamako mosque,  baobab tree,  barakah,  Baroque style,  Barragán, Luis, ,  Basta, Spain, –, n.– batin, ,  beauty, concepts of, , , , , , ,  being, Islamic concept of, , , , ,  bid’a,  Bilal,  Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed mosque), ,  B’nai Yeshurun temple (Cincinnati),  Boston mosque, , , , –,  Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA),  Boyer, M. Christine,  Branford Place mosque, – Braque, Georges, ,  Bravmann, Rene,  Buddhism,  building codes, , , . See also American building practices building traditions, , , , ,  Burckhardt, Titus,  Byzantine architecture, – Cage, John,  Cairo, , ,  Californian style,  calligraphy, , , , n.; Kufic, , , ; neo-Kufic, ; Thuluth, ,  Capilla Real, Cholula,  Cedar Rapids mosque, ,  Central Asia,  China,  Christianity, , ; aesthetics of, , n.; proselytism in,  Cleveland mosque,  Columbus, Christopher, ,  congregational worship, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  container and contained, , ,  Cordoba mosque, , , , ,  craftsmanship, , ; traditional, , , , . See also sufi master craftsmen Crystal Palace (New York),  cubism, –, , ; painters influenced by, ,  cultural: conventions, , ; displacement , , , , ; hegemony,  188 Deconstructing the American Mosque Dade: Community College, ; County,  Damascus mosque, , – Dar al-Islam community, , , ,  Dar al-Islam mosque. See Abiquiu mosque Darsh, S. M.,  darurah, ,  daw’ah,  daycare/nursery,  deconstruction, , , , , , , , ,  decorative themes. See ornamentation Deen Intensives,  Derrida, Jacques,  Descartes,  diaspora, , , , , , , , ,  dome, , , , ; lack of, ; sky as, ,  Dyula mosques, ,  earth, as a mosque, –,  East Orange (New Jersey), ,  Egypt, , , , ; ancient,  Eid prayers, , , , , ,  Eliade, Mircea,  El-Wakil, Abdel Wahed, , , , , ,  Emanu-El temple (New York),  emotional value, , , ,  England,  environmental issues, , , , ,  epigraphy, , , , , , , n. eschatology, , , ,  Eurocentric models,  exegesis,  expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain,  extant model(s), , , ,  al-Farouqi, Ismail,  Fas, ,  Fathy, Hassan, , , , , , , , , ; design principles of, – fatwa, , , – Fayetteville (North Carolina) mosque,  feminist polemics,  fitrah,  Florida International University,  form and function of a mosque, , , , , , , , , , ,  form-making code, , , n. Franciscan monks,  Friday prayers. See jum’ah prayers fundraising,  Geertz, Clifford,  gender: bias, , , ; relations, , , , , . See also space and gender geometric themes, , , , , n. al-Ghazali,  Gideon, Sigfried,  God. see Allah Gothic church,  Gourna project, , ,  Grabar, Oleg, , , , ,  Graduate School of Social Sciences,  Granada,  Green, Kathryn L., ,  Gris, Juan, ,  group feeling, ,  habitat, , , , , , ,  Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, , ,  hadith literature, , , – passim, , , , , ,  Haider, Gulzar, –, , ; design principles of,  Hajj, the, , ,  hermeneutics, , , , , ,  Highland Park Community Gardens,  hijab, , , ,  hijrah, , ,  Hinduism,  historical continuity, , , –, , ,  historical texts,  historicism, , , ,  Index 189 Holt, Jaan, , – Hunt, Richard Morris,  hybrid aesthetics and traditions, ,  hypostyle plan, , , –, –, ; abandonment of,  ‘ibadah, primacy of,  Iberian peninsula, ; Muslim architecture on,  Ibn ‘Arabi, , , , , , , ; theory of subject and object, , , , , ,  Ibn Hazm, ,  Ibn Khaldun, , ,  Ibn Rushd,  Ibn Siraj, ,  Ibn Thabit, Hassan, , ,  iconography, , , n. identity, , , ,  ijma, , , , , , – ijtihad, , ,  image, , , , , , , n. imagery, ,  imam, , , ,  Imam Baro,  Imam Shaw Kani,  immigrant Muslims, , , , , , , , , ,  Indian subcontinent, ,  indigenous Muslims,  inscriptions. See epigraphy Iran,  Isfahan mosque (Masjid-i Imam), , , ,  Islam, , , , , , , , , , , , , ; in antebellum period, , ; and Christianity, ; in new contexts, , ; in North America, , , , , , , ; spread of, , , ; and traditional cultures,  Islamic art and architecture, , , , , , , , , , ; history of, , , , , , , , , ; motifs in, , , ,  Islamic Center of Cleveland. See Cleveland mosque Islamic Center of Greater Toledo. See Toledo mosque Islamic Center of Plainfield, Indiana. See Plainfield mosque Islamic cosmology, , , , , ,  Islamic Cultural Center of New York, Manhattan. See Manhattan mosque Islamic Cultural Center of Washington, D.C. See Washington, D.C. mosque Islamic garden,  Islamic Institute of Boston (IIB). See Boston mosque Islamic law, , , , , , , , , , , ; understanding of,  Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), ,  Islamic Society of North America,  Islamic University of Madinah (Saudi Arabia),  Istanbul, ,  iwan,  James P. Timility Junior High School,  Jeddah corniche mosques,  Jenne mosque, , ,  Jerusalem. See Bait al-Maqdis Jewish immigrants,  Jick, Leon A.,  jum’ah prayers, , , , , –. See also congregational worship Jupiter, temple of,  al-Jurjani, Abd...