Abstract
A review of: Apotsos, Michelle Moore. The Masjid in Contemporary Islamic Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. doi:10.1017/9781108573931. The review offers readers a rare look at the contemporary trends and diversity in building traditions, community usages, and spiritual practices of African Muslims and their masjids. Challenging the conventional notion of the masjid as simply a place for prostration and prayer, she instead gives a novel interpretive approach by analyzing a range of masjids and their multifarious operational and symbolic functions among Muslim congregations in South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal and Tanzania.
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