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Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- TRANSLITERATION
- CHARTS, TABLES, PLATES AND FIGURES
- CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION-AIM AND SCOPE
- 1.1 WHY HAS THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT FOR MOSQUE EVOLUTION BEEN UNDERESTIMATED TO DATE?
- 1.2 DOMINANT PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROPHET AND HIS HOMELAND
- 1.3 PROBLEMS WITH THESE VIEWS
- 1.4 QUESTIONS AND METHODOLOGY
- CHAPTER 2. SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY MOSQUES
- 2.1 INTRODUCTION
- 2.2 ARABIC LITERARY SOURCES
- 2.3 OTHER EXISTING EVIDENCE
- 2.4 CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER 3. STUDYING ḤADĪTH
- 3.1 INTRODUCTION
- 3.2 ḤADĪTH IN MODERN SCHOLARSHIP
- 3.3 HISTORY OF ḤADĪTH TRANSMISSION
- 3.4 DIALECTICS ABOUT THE AUTHORITATIVENESS OF THE TRADITION
- 3.5 CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER 4. THE ‘HOUSE OF THE PROPHET’ OR THE ‘MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET’?
- 4.1 INTRODUCTION
- 4.2 EXISTING THEORIES ON THE PROPHET’S BUILDING
- 4.3 THE ‘HOUSE OF THE PROPHET’ THEORY
- 4.4 THE ‘MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET’ THEORY
- 4.5 ḤADĪTH AND THE ‘MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET’
- 4.6 THE QURʾĀN AND THE ‘MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET’
- 4.7 OTHER MOSQUES IN THE TIME OF THE PROPHET
- 4.8 CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER 5. A PROPHETIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE MOSQUE: LAYOUT AND ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS
- 5.1 INTRODUCTION
- 5.2 STATUS OF THE MOSQUE
- 5.3 SITE
- 5.4 MOSQUE LAYOUT
- 5.5 ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS OF THE MOSQUE
- 5.6 CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER 6. A PROPHETIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE MOSQUE: ELABORATION AND DECORATION
- 6.1 INTRODUCTION
- 6.2 DISCUSSING ANTI-BUILDING TRADITIONS
- 6.3 MOSQUE-RELATED ḤADĪTHS: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
- 6.4 DECORATION
- 6.5 CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER 7. EVOLUTION OF MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE: BETWEEN ‘ORTHODOXY’ AND OTHER MODALITIES
- 7.1 INTRODUCTION
- 7.2 EVOLUTION OF THE MOSQUE UNDER THE RĀSHIDŪN
- 7.3 EVOLUTION OF THE MOSQUE UNDER THE UMAYYADS
- 7.4 CONCLUSION
- CHAPTER 8. CONCLUSIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX