Abstract
Whereas religious practice has conventionally been associated with the stabilization of urban processes through social anchorage and the mobilization of common identity, it does also entail a sense of continuously shifting perspectives. Urbanity is seen and experienced through multiple prisms and possibilities, something that Islamic concepts related to circulation, displacement and intersection have long emphasized. Currently a politics of mobilizing religious practices is key to understanding how the social fabric of cities is remade, and this essay discusses its limits and possibilities.
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AbdouMaliq Simone
AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist and Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. Email: [email protected]