Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics

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"This text will be the classic work in the field.... It will be extremely useful for general Islamic studies, for studies of religion in America, and for the study of Islam in America."

—Aminah Beverly McCloud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, DePaul University, Chicago

From the avant-garde design of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City to the simplicity of the Dar al-Islam Mosque in Abiquiu, New Mexico, the American mosque takes many forms of visual and architectural expression. The absence of a single, authoritative model and the plurality of design nuances reflect the heterogeneity of the American Muslim community itself, which embodies a whole spectrum of ethnic origins, traditions, and religious practices.

In this book, Akel Ismail Kahera explores the history and theory of Muslim religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950. Using a notion of deconstruction based on the concepts of "jamal" (beauty), "subject," and "object" found in the writings of Ibn Arabi (d. 1240), he interprets the forms and meanings of several American mosques from across the country. His analysis contributes to three debates within the formulation of a Muslim aesthetics in North America—first, over the meaning, purpose, and function of visual religious expression; second, over the spatial and visual affinities between American and non-American mosques, including the Prophet's mosque at Madinah, Arabia; and third, over the relevance of culture, place, and identity to the making of contemporary religious expression in North America.

Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics

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Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics
Akel Ismail Kahera
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORGYDQ

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Each book in the Art School series explains all the materials, techniques , methods and contains inspirational and practical projects, expert ideas and approaches, clear instructions and examples and at-a-glance, step-by-step images that every artist will value. This book is divided into two practical sections, and starts with a full catalogue of materials and equipment, and includes a comprehensive techniques section which covers such areas as mixing pastels, using charcoal, layering a textured ground, sgraffito and much more. It shows clearly how to do all the basic setting up and preparation, and takes the reader through all the primary techniques, with step-by-step practical projects. Throughout, lively and inspirational works by contemporary artists illustrate the skills in action, and provide a constant source of inspiration. The book contains 175 color images including an inspirational gallery, and the book is filled with practical guidance on how to treat classical subjects such as Landscapes, Flowers, Faces and Figures.

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Ceramics

Step-By-Step Art School-Ceramics
Geraldine Christy , and Sara Peach
Manufacturer: Book Sales
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1555217028

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Ceramics.......2004-08-08

Ceramics is perfect for anyone wanting to expand their knowledge of the craft. Whether you work solely from the book or use it to supplement a course you are already taking, your skills and techniques will improve dramatically.

The 9 projects vary in degrees of complexity and guide you carefully through each stage with clear instructions and superb photography. Challenging pieces such as the cheese bell and the raku teapot inspire the imagination and really stretch your skill and artistry, making this a thorougly readable and instructive book.

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Pastels (Step by step art school)
Geraldine Christy
Manufacturer: Chartwell Books
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Pastel | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006OUTKG

Pastels: Step-By-Step Teaching Through Inspirational Projects (Art School Series)

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Pastels: Step-By-Step Teaching Through Inspirational Projects (Art School Series)
Hazel Harrison
Manufacturer: Smithmark Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

Pastel | Drawing | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

Pastel | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

Drawing | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0765197278

Step by Step - Pastels (Step by Step Art School)

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Step by Step - Pastels (Step by Step Art School)
Geraldine Christy
Manufacturer: Bounty Books
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ASIN: 0753707136

Step by Step Art School: Pastels (Step by Step Art School)

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Step by Step Art School: Pastels (Step by Step Art School)
Geraldine Christy
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1555217591

Pastels: Art School : Step-By-Step Teaching Through Inspirational Projects (Art School Series)

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Pastels: Art School : Step-By-Step Teaching Through Inspirational Projects (Art School Series)
HAZEL HARRISON
Manufacturer: HERMES HOUSE
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1843095181

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The best........1997-10-14

This book offers one a life-changing experience. A chance to view the world and its inhabitants in a pure, simple and beautiful light. I read this book many years ago and consider it my very favorite - I continue to read all of Ethan Hubbard's books and only wish there were more authors and people with his view of the world.

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All-original collection of bound, gagged, pierced, whipped, chained and otherwise compromised young vixens that began it all.

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Laboring for Rights: Unions and Sexual Diversity Across Nations.(Review): An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
Anne Forrest
Manufacturer: Relations Industrielles
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009FD148
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, published by Relations Industrielles on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1339 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Laboring for Rights: Unions and Sexual Diversity Across Nations.(Review)
Author: Anne Forrest
Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: Relations Industrielles
Volume: 56 Issue: 2 Page: 437

Article Type: Book Review

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The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts. Part I is a rich evocation of life in a working-class neighborhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the mid-1930s, as seen through the eyes of Moishe, the child of Polish-Jewish immigrants. In what is a daily routine, Moishe's father waits for the postman at the window, always hoping for news of his family from the Old Country. Don Isaac's relatives are prisoners of the Nazis, so all he can read Moishe and his mother is letters from before. Interspersed among the child narrator's reminiscences are the letters those relatives might have written, bearing witness to their suffering. Letters that never came.

In Part II, we find Moishe in the dungeons of the military junta that governed his country through the 1970s and part of the 1980s. Held in isolation, tortured and starving, he takes refuge in the world of his imagination, composing another letter that never cameÂ—a letter to his father that embodies his own quest for identityÂ—while his parents, penniless, are evicted from their house and stigmatized as the mother and father of a "subversive."

Part III of Rosencof's text is largely a meditation on the redemptive power of the word, real and imagined. This poignant, humane work, as Uruguayan and Jewish as it is universal, links the cruelty of the Holocaust to that of the Uruguayan military and the resistance of Hitler's victims to his own.

The Letters that Never Came was originally published in Spanish in 2000 in Uruguay.

The story of longing and hope in the life of a Jewish boy and his family in 1930s Uruguay.

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Poignant, evocative and urgent.......2005-11-24

Like Mauricio Rosencof, the author of this book, I am Uruguayan - but this book has a message for every reader, regardless of his or her nationality, religion or political ideology.

The son of poor Polish/Jewish immigrants (his father was a tailor), Mauricio Rosencof's childhood was punctuated by poverty and absence - that of his elder brother, who, as he tells us, "protected me all my life, until he died", and that of his parents' Polish relatives, assassinated by the Germans and authors of the real or imagined "letters that never came". But Mauricio's early years were also marked by the kindness of his parents, by his hungry alertness to the world, and by the magical background of a long-gone Montevideo - all of which he evokes masterfully.

Suffering was to feature prominently in adulthood too. For about twelve years (1973 - 1985), Uruguay was scourged by a shameful and bloody military dictatorship that ended one of the longest and stablest democratic traditions in South America. Mauricio, a left-wing activist, was imprisoned and tortured, while his aged father and mother were persecuted as the "parents of a subversive". During these dark times, the letters that never came were the ones he could not write, the ones that told of the brutal treatment meted out to him, of the terror, the hope and the endurance.

I read the book in the original Spanish and so cannot comment on the translation, but I hope it does justice to Rosencof's spare, austere and yet profoundly evocative writing.

It should also be noted that "The letters..." inspired a play (which included Hebrew dances or "rikudim") and ran for a long time in Montevideo's renowned "Teatro El Galpón".

This wonderfully crafted memoir is an urgent and important read which speaks of family ties, heritage, love, grief, beliefs, and - above all - the force of the human spirit.

awesome!.......2004-10-05

i read this book in the original spanish a couple of years ago and was blown away. rosencof creatively weaves together his own history with that of his ancestors who perished in hitler's camps. i have not read this translated version, but it is probably excellent since it is part of a series that has included terrific books.

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In December 1916 the SS Zayanni left Bombay bound for the port of Basra, at the head of the Persian Gulf. On board was C.M. Cursetjee, a 69-year-old Oxford-educated Indian Parsee, on his way to see his nephew who was serving in the Indian forces. The boat, carrying much commercial cargo, stopped at all the major ports on the voyage, and the author kept a diary of this remarkable journey upon which this book is based.

The Land of the Date is an exceptional study in that it provides important information two areas. On the one hand, it furnishes a unique and highly entertaining record of life in the Gulf ports in the heady days of the First World War. Cursetjee brings the feel of the times vividly to life: from the pearl divers of Bahrain to the street traders of the bazaars of Basra, all are discussed and described, often with dry humor.

The book also, however, serves to bring an Indian perspective to bear on the situation in the Gulf which, considering the very large Indian involvement with the Empire's ventures in the region, has been greatly overlooked. Cursetjee emerges as, in the main, a staunch imperialist, referring throughout to the greater potential for the future offered to the inhabitants by British rule and fully believing that the Gulf should be British after the war. He also encouraged Indian entrepreneurship in the region, seeing considerable commercial opportunities.

The author clearly foresaw the future strategic importance of Kuwait, due to its geographical relationship to the prime port of Basra and also the importance that oil would play In the area's future. Whilst fully supporting the British in their Middle Eastern endeavours he was tellingly critical of their attitude in the occupied areas: 'if only British rule were impressed . . . with less of that overweening self importance, haughty aloofness and mischief-brewing superciliousness with which the Britisher makes himself obnoxious in many lands.'

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Birds,
Athos Menaboni
Manufacturer: Rinehart
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Ornithology | Zoology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006ASET8

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Menaboni Birds

Manufacturer: Rinehart & Company, Inc.
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Menaboni Athos and Sarah
Manufacturer: Rinehart
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ASIN: B000J4UA16

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Athos and Sara Manaboni
Manufacturer: NY,
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PT15E6

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Athos and Sara Menaboni Menaboni
Manufacturer: Portland House
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLX0WK

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Menaboni's birds
Athos Menaboni
Manufacturer: Rinehart & Co. Inc
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General | Birdwatching | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0007J01LC

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Menabonis Birds
Athos Menaboni
Manufacturer: RINEHART & COMPANY INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q00J82

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Athos Menaboni
Manufacturer: RINEHART & COMPANY INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q9MZO4

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Menaboni Sara and Athos
Manufacturer: Rinehart and Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NVDBMK

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Menaboni's Birds
Athos And Sara Menaboni
Manufacturer: Rinehart & Co., New York
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ASIN: B000IY8D7K

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