The Making of the Mosque

A Survey of Religious Imperatives

Essam Ayyad

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781463239671
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

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