The present paper aims for the most part to prove the fact that religious and spiritual places and above all, mosques play major roles within Islamic urban areas. They are in fact the basis of civil infrastructures. A historical analysis focusing on where mosques stand in Islamic urban areas reveals that mosques have always been the center of development and growth and that they must be studied...

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A rational Beatty sequence has the form {�pi/q + b� : i ∈ Z} where p > q > 0 and gcd(p, q) = 1. We call p/q the modulus of the sequence and b the offset. Morikawa gave a condition on the moduli of two Beatty sequences such that they would be disjoint for a suitable choice of offsets. Holzman and Fraenkel showed that the sequence formed by the intersection of two Beatty sequences with moduli p1/...

Research highlights how usage and claims of Islamophobia tend to be simplistic and without nuance. Using a case study approach, this article considers the claims of Islamophobia made in relation to the proposed Dudley ̳super-mosque‘. Setting out a narrative of the ̳super-mosque‘, this article draws upon primary and secondary research to consider the claims and discourses of the major actors in ...

This study presents the assessment of the quality of speech intelligibility of two Malaysian mosques and the results are used to develop a set of general acoustical guidelines to be used in the design of a mosque. Two mosques were selected for the research: Masjid UPM and the Masjid Jamek. The objective of the research is to enable the comparison of the acoustics and speech intelligibility betw...

This paper presents the case study of a real-time interactive digital narrative visualisation of the Namaz Pray of a simulated Ottoman Imam in the 16 century virtually restored mosque of Küçük Aya Sofya (previous St. Sergius and Bacchus church) as well as in the Hagia Sophia mosque (previous cathedral of Hagia Sophia), in Istanbul, Turkey. This case study illustrates that the abandonment of tra...

No presente ensaio, tomando como lócus de análise o filme “Todos estão falando sobre Jamie” (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) e inspiradas pelas autoras autores do Pós-Estruturalismo, da teoria Queer Transfeminismo, nos propomos pensar problematizar qual lugar das normatividades na experiência escolar vida pessoas que experimentam a condição dissidência sexual e/ou gênero. Aqui imagem fílmica é...