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Sufi City : urban design and archetypes in Touba
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Title
Sufi City : urban design and archetypes in Touba / Eric Ross.
ISBN
1580462170 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781580462174 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2006.
Physical Description
xv, 290 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 13, 2009
Series
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora,
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index.
Contents
Archetypes: Sufi phenomenology and the semiosis of landscape
Urban design: the spatial configuration of a spiritual project
Marabout Republics then and now: autonomous Muslim towns in Senegal
The Pénc: trees and urban design in West Africa.
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