Universal mosques are built today by countries for political and showy reasons and in order to appear as countries that respect Islam and care for its affairs.They are built isolated in a vacuum, with enormous areas and costs, on hills and in large open spaces, as a symbol and icon of the state they represent...and in this way they resemble huge Gothic cathedrals, which were often built for purely showy reasons.This is a negative and dangerous change in the reasons for building such buildingsIt was built in the heart of the city, and in Islamic culture the city was called a city because it contained a mosque.Then the entire city is built on this great mosque, and all the main roads go from it and to it, and public buildings, shops, and markets surround it.Thus, it constitutes a religious, social, and economic magnet capable of attracting people and securing the center with a movement that is repeated five times a day.Changing the nature of the use of these dangerous buildings deprives the contemporary city of its vibrant, active and dynamic heart... thus leading to the weakening and marginalization of its centre.
Research paper Title
The Cathedral Mosque
Personal Biography
I am Dr. Muhammad Youssef Abu Hussein, born in Irbid/Jordan on January 1, 1966. I hold a doctorate in architecture, specializing in city planning, from the Frederick II University of Studies, Naples/Italy, in 2002.
I work as an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture / Al-Hijjawi College of Engineering Technology / Yarmouk University. I have done a lot of research in the field of architecture, city planning, and Islamic architecture.
Paper Abstract
The Cathedral Mosque
The best places are mosques (Inscription in the Gök Madrasa of Siwas, Turkey, 1272)
Abstract
Historically, mosques took a great space of the Islamic cities, it wasn’t privately functioning as religious buildings as it was a multi-functional space that includes the most important functions in peoples' lives. However, mosques were picturized in the image of prayer spaces only in a late epoch of Islamism, more specifically, after the fall of the Umayyads under the Abbasids. The concept of the cathedral mosque (Al-Masjed Al-Jami) was highly in use during the historical Islamic periods, it usually represents the nucleus of the city that defines the main routes and orientations of the city. The paper seeks to build a better understanding of the historical role of the cathedral mosques in Islamic cities through reviewing a set of historical Islamic cities urban planning as Al-Kufa. This paper illustrates the importance of the cathedral mosques through studying its cultural, political and educational role in reflection to the mosque role in our age. The findings of this paper seek a way to build a better formula to help designing cathedral mosques in contemporary and future times and give the mosque a more inclusive role that suits its functional flexibility.
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