Mosques in Norway
Subtitle: the creation and iconography of sacred space
By: Saphinaz-Amal Naguib ; photographs by Arthur Sand ; line-drawings by Kirsten Berrum.
Series: The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Oslo = Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning ; Serie B, Skrifter ;; 107; Serie B--Skrifter ;; 107.
Publisher: Novus
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Mosques -- Norway; Architecture, Islamic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface and Acknowledgements; title: Abbreviations & Notes on transcription; title: Introduction; title: Prologue; title: Aims and objectives; title: PART ONE; title: The Creation and Iconogrphy of Sacred Place; title: Chapter One: Muslim communities in Norway; title: Introduction; title: Spaces of transculturation; title: Finding a place to live; title: Schooling; title: Carving an Islamic space; title: Ethnicising religion; title: Chapter Two: Transcultural processes and visualising religion; title: The visibility of religion; title: The temporalities of cultural memory; title: The aesthetics of transcultural knowledge; title: Chapter Three: The polyphony of sacred space; title: Rethinking iconography; title: The correlation between sacred space and sacred place; title: Architecture as space and place; title: The Islamic style; title: Chapter Four: The mosque as centre of reference; title: What's in a term; title: A grammar of design; title: A place for women; title: A typology of Norwegian mosques; title: Chapter Five: The ornamental mode; title: Amor infiniti; title: Geometry as a form of art; title: The fascination of writing; title: Photographs, posters and the ambiguity of images; title: Religious artefacts and Islamic kitsch; title: Chapter Six: Where will the twain meet?; title: Perplexed elderly; title: and transcultural youth; title: The circularity of the qibla, tawhid and the 'umma; title: Virtual mosques and interactive 'umma; title: Notes; title: PART TWO; title: Photographic stroll; title: Typology of mosques; title: I - Rooms; title: II - Flats, lofts and basements; title: III - Converted warehouses and factories; title: IV - Converted schools; title: V - Converted houses; title: VI - Mosque built for that purpose; title: List of illustrations; title: Line drawings; title: Bibliography; title: Index.