The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh Through ... - Paul Wheatley - Google Books

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What makes a city an economic, political, and cultural center? In The Places Where Men Pray Together, Paul Wheatley draws on two decades of astonishingly wide-ranging research to demonstrate that Islamic cities are defined by function rather than form—by…