middle muslim culture labyrinth

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Space and Muslim Urban Life: At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez (Culture and Civilization in the Middle ...
Simon O'Meara

Routledge, 2007

This book develops academic understanding of Muslim urban space by pursuing the structural logic of the premodern Arab-Muslim city, or medina. With particular reference to The Book of Walls, an historical discourse of Islamic law whose primary subject is the wall, the book determines the meaning of a wall and then uses it to analyze the space of Fez. One of a growing number of studies to address space as a category of critical analysis, the ...