Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Polemics of Deconstruction
• Chapter One: Aesthetic Origins and End Conditions
• Chapter Two: Interpretations of Image, Text, and Form
• Chapter Three: Space, Place, and Public Gathering
• Conclusion: Reversible Space and Linear Time
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index

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Explores the history and theory of Muslim religious aesthetics in the United States since 1950

About the Author

Akel Ismail Kahera is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

"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

"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