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An urban flourishing: the new homes of British Islam

Turner, Chris

Icon, 2020-07 (200), p.76

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An urban flourishing: the new homes of British Islam
Autor: Turner, Chris
Materias: Architecture ; Islam ; Mosques & temples ; Muslims
Es parte de: Icon, 2020-07 (200), p.76
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Descripción: In The British Mosque: An Architectural and Social History (2018) Shahed Saleem--the architect of striking contemporary mosques in cast London and Aberdeen--suggests a more nuanced, generous, anthropological view. Rather than interpreting and dismissing neo-traditionalist mosques as kitsch pastiche--the crude importation of a pre-existing Muslim culture from another place--he prefers to look at mosque-making as a creative, performative process by which immigrant communities construct their identities anew in foreign cities. The replication and reuse of Islamic architectural symbols from history,' he writes, 'rather than being the ill-considered application of the past, is instead a statement of where that group sees itself. and its relation to t he wider world, and is part of the process of becoming for minority communities'. The UK has 1,800 mosques catering to a community of more than 3 million Muslims. 'Religious congregations are independent and self-organized, and anyone can start a mosque, anywhere,' Saleem explains of these grass-roots, crowd-sourced, community projects.
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