The Mosque

Abstract

Refreshingly candid and at times contradictory, not to mention multidisciplinaryand entirely provocative, this book’s alternative and polished graphicand design immediately places it outside mainstream architecture texts oncontemporary mosque design. Although specifically focused on the contemporarydesign of mosques in the Netherlands, its broader and more generalunderstandings are easily grasped through its grounded arguments.Many of the chapters also contextualize issues of mosque design in thatcountry within the larger scope of mosque design in the West. Each of theten chapters is written by a different author: architects, architectural historians,philosophers, politicians, and other experts. Titled with a provocativequestion, the introductory short commentary ties together what may at firstseem like disparate interpretations of the contemporary mosque’s role anddesign ...