Sufi City
Subtitle: urban design and archetypes in Touba
By: Eric Ross
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rochester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Sufism -- Social aspects -- Senegal -- Touba; Landscape -- Social aspects -- Senegal -- Touba; Symbolism in architecture -- Senegal -- Touba; City and town life -- Senegal -- Touba; City planning -- Senegal -- Touba; Landscape architecture -- Senegal -- Touba; City and town life -- Senegal -- Case studies; City planning -- Senegal -- Case studies; Islamic cities and towns -- Senegal -- Case studies; Touba (Senegal) -- Geography
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index
Table of contents: title: Archetypes: Sufi phenomenology and the semiosis of landscape; title: Urban design: the spatial configuration of a spiritual project; title: Marabout Republics then and now: autonomous Muslim towns in Senegal; title: The Pénc: trees and urban design in West Africa