Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. TRANSLITERATION xi
5. CHARTS, TABLES, PLATES AND FIGURES xiii
6. CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION-AIM AND SCOPE
7. 1.1 WHY HAS THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT FOR MOSQUE EVOLUTION BEEN UNDERESTIMATED TO DATE? 4
8. 1.2 DOMINANT PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROPHET AND HIS HOMELAND 7
9. 1.3 PROBLEMS WITH THESE VIEWS 21
10. 1.4 QUESTIONS AND METHODOLOGY 43
11. CHAPTER 2. SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY MOSQUES
12. 2.1 INTRODUCTION 47
13. 2.2 ARABIC LITERARY SOURCES 48
14. 2.3 OTHER EXISTING EVIDENCE 69
15. 2.4 CONCLUSION 87
16. CHAPTER 3. STUDYING ḤADĪTH
17. 3.1 INTRODUCTION 93
18. 3.2 ḤADĪTH IN MODERN SCHOLARSHIP 96
19. 3.3 HISTORY OF ḤADĪTH TRANSMISSION 106
20. 3.4 DIALECTICS ABOUT THE AUTHORITATIVENESS OF THE TRADITION 123
21. 3.5 CONCLUSION 133
22. CHAPTER 4. THE ‘HOUSE OF THE PROPHET’ OR THE ‘MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET’?
23. 4.1 INTRODUCTION 137
24. 4.2 EXISTING THEORIES ON THE PROPHET’S BUILDING 138
25. 4.3 THE ‘HOUSE OF THE PROPHET’ THEORY 147
26. 4.4 THE ‘MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET’ THEORY 150
27. 4.5 ḤADĪTH AND THE ‘MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET’ 166
28. 4.6 THE QURʾĀN AND THE ‘MOSQUE OF THE PROPHET’ 180
29. 4.7 OTHER MOSQUES IN THE TIME OF THE PROPHET 196
30. 4.8 CONCLUSION 205
31. CHAPTER 5. A PROPHETIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE MOSQUE: LAYOUT AND ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS
32. 5.1 INTRODUCTION 209
33. 5.2 STATUS OF THE MOSQUE 211
34. 5.3 SITE 216
35. 5.4 MOSQUE LAYOUT 229
36. 5.5 ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS OF THE MOSQUE 231
37. 5.6 CONCLUSION 265
38. CHAPTER 6. A PROPHETIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE MOSQUE: ELABORATION AND DECORATION
39. 6.1 INTRODUCTION 269
40. 6.2 DISCUSSING ANTI-BUILDING TRADITIONS 269
41. 6.3 MOSQUE-RELATED ḤADĪTHS: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 284
42. 6.4 DECORATION 299
43. 6.5 CONCLUSION 313
44. CHAPTER 7. EVOLUTION OF MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE: BETWEEN ‘ORTHODOXY’ AND OTHER MODALITIES
45. 7.1 INTRODUCTION 315
46. 7.2 EVOLUTION OF THE MOSQUE UNDER THE RĀSHIDŪN 322
47. 7.3 EVOLUTION OF THE MOSQUE UNDER THE UMAYYADS 347
48. 7.4 CONCLUSION 389
49. CHAPTER 8. CONCLUSIONS 395
50. BIBLIOGRAPHY 407
51. INDEX 455