Akel Ismail Kahera is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

"This text will be the classic work in the field... It will be extremely useful for general Islamic studies, for studies of religion in America, and for the study of Islam in America." Aminah Beverly McCloud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, DePaul University, Chicago

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Polemics of DeconstructionChapter One: Aesthetic Origins and End ConditionsChapter Two: Interpretations of Image, Text, and FormChapter Three: Space, Place, and Public GatheringConclusion: Reversible Space and Linear TimeNotesGlossaryBibliography Index

Akel Ismail Kahera is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

"This text will be the classic work in the field... It will be extremely useful for general Islamic studies, for studies of religion in America, and for the study of Islam in America." Aminah Beverly McCloud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, DePaul University, Chicago

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Polemics of DeconstructionChapter One: Aesthetic Origins and End ConditionsChapter Two: Interpretations of Image, Text, and FormChapter Three: Space, Place, and Public GatheringConclusion: Reversible Space and Linear TimeNotesGlossaryBibliography Index

Akel Ismail Kahera is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

"This text will be the classic work in the field... It will be extremely useful for general Islamic studies, for studies of religion in America, and for the study of Islam in America." Aminah Beverly McCloud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, DePaul University, Chicago

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Polemics of DeconstructionChapter One: Aesthetic Origins and End ConditionsChapter Two: Interpretations of Image, Text, and FormChapter Three: Space, Place, and Public GatheringConclusion: Reversible Space and Linear TimeNotesGlossaryBibliography Index