| dc.contributor.author | VLOEBERGHS, Ward | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-07T15:05:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-12-07T15:05:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Myriam ABABSA, Eric DENIS and Baudoin DUPRET (eds), Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East: Case studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, Cairo, American University in Cairo Press, 137-168 | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9789774165405 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/24694 | |
| dc.description | This chapter is an enhanced version of a text previously published as Ward VLOEBERGHS, “The Genesis of a Mosque. Negotiating Sacred Space in Downtown Beirut”, EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2008/17, Florence: European University Institute, 2008. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This chapter provides an overview of different stages in the coming about of the Muhammad al-Amin mosque, completed in 2005. By looking into the complex history of the mosque we document how a selection of actors became, willing or not, associated with what is now Lebanon’s largest congregational mosque, funded almost exclusively by former PM Rafiq Hariri. We argue that a number of physical alterations to the edifice are traces of history that illustrate legal as well as political debates surrounding a construction project that bestowed on the Lebanese capital a major landmark after a surprising trajectory that encompasses a century and a half. This contribution attempts to highlight how, by constant actions and reactions, a highly symbolical place of worship emerged into the skyline of a cosmopolitan metropolis in an ongoing, transformative process of acquiring, claiming and appropriating (sacred) land. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Product of workshop No. 04 at the 9th MRM 2008. | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.title | The Politics of Sacred Space in Downtown Beirut (1853-2008) | en |
| dc.type | Contribution to book | en |