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This edited volume explores the dynamic relationship between the Friday mosque and the Islamic city, addressing the traditional topics through a fresh new lens and offering a critical examination of each case study in its own spatial, urban, and socio-cultural context. While these two well-known themes—concepts that once defined the field—have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this compilation specifically addresses the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between these spaces.  Instead of addressing the Friday mosque as the central signifier of the Islamic city, this collection provides evidence that there was (and continues to be) variety in the way architectural borders became fluid in and around Friday mosques across the Islamic world, from Cordoba to Jerusalem and from London to Lahore. By historicizing different cases and exploring the way human agency, through ritual and politics, shaped the physical and social fabric of the city, this volume challenges the generalizing and reductionist tendencies in earlier scholarship.

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A. Hilâl Uğurlu is associate professor of architectural history at MEF University, Istanbul and Suzan Yalman is assistant professor in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç University, Istanbul. Most recently, they have co-edited a volume for Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations entitled: Sacred Spaces and Urban Networks (Istanbul: ANAMED, 2019).

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