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Author Apotsos, Michelle, author.

Title The Masjid in contemporary Islamic Africa / Michelle Apotsos
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 288 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: 'A Place of Prostration': The Concept of Masjid in Contemporary Africa -- 1. Spaces Both Radical and Revolutionary: The Intersectional Masjid -- 2. Monument, Memory, and Remembrance: Rethinking the Masjid Through Contemporary Heritage Regimes -- 3. "All the Earth is a Mosque": The Masjid as Environmental Advocate -- 4. Masjids on the Move: Mobility and the Growth of "Portable" Islamic Space -- Conclusion: Looking to the Future: The Masjid as a Space on the Edge -- Bibliography
Summary "The term "intersectionality" was first coined by jurist and critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989 as an approach to human identity and experience that recognizes that individuals are composed of multiple identities that are not mutually exclusive. Importantly, the combination of overlapping, combining, and intersecting identities that compose an individual in turn has the possibility of producing diverse, highly unique experiences of marginalization, disenfranchisement, and oppression. Thus, various modes of oppression, whether they be racism, sexism, xenophobia, etc. are not experienced as singular disenfranchising units, but as a broader interactive system of subjugation"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 12, 2021)
Subject Mosques -- Social aspects -- Africa, North
Mosques -- Social aspects -- Africa
HISTORY / Africa / General.
Mosques -- Social aspects
Africa
North Africa
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021008485
ISBN 9781108573931
1108573932
9781108682466
1108682464