The Arab Revolution Takes Back the Public Space

In 1991, al-Sadiq al-Nayhum, a Libyan thinker exiled in Geneva, published a book of collected essays in Arabic with the provocative title Islam in Captivity: Who Stole the Mosque and Where Did Friday Disappear?2 The thesis of the book was not novel. Al-Nayhum posited that modernity had failed to tak...

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Main Author: Rabbat, Nasser (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2013-12-05T18:29:46Z.
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