Rizwan Mawani is a Canadian educator and researcher who specialises in anthropology and comparative religious studies. His research focuses on the diversity of religious practices and spaces, as well as understandings of leadership and authority within contemporary Muslim communities. He has advised NGOs and think tanks and helped to set policy, as well as addressing audiences worldwide. His popular written work has featured in The Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Mosques and their ArchitecturesMosques and their EnvironmentSinan and Ottoman MosquesChinese MosquesUighur MosquesHui MosquesThe Mud Mosques of MaliThe Origins of the MasjidMosque FeaturesChapter 2: Mosque PracticesThe SalatThe emergence of Sunni and Shi‘i InterpretationsLebanon and Shi‘i Ithna‘ashari Mosque PracticesSunni Devotion to the Prophet and his Family: Cairene MosquesChapter 3: Shi‘i Sites of PietyIran’s Husayniyyas and TakiyasIndia’s Ashurkhanas and ImambarasThe Imambaras of LucknowThe Ashurkhanas of HyderabadThe Ismailis and the JamatkhanaChapter 4: Sufi Sites of DevotionSufi TariqasTracing Sufi Spaces of WorshipThe KhanaqahThe ZawiyaThe Tekke and TakiyaSenegal’s Tijani OrderIran’s Ni‘matullahi OrderTurkey’s Mevlevi OrderChapter 5: Transcending BoundariesThe Zikris of PakistanThe Zikr-KhanaThe DruzesConclusion: The Power and Perils of PluralismGlossaryNotes Further Reading List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on the Text Index

Rizwan Mawani is a Canadian educator and researcher who specialises in anthropology and comparative religious studies. His research focuses on the diversity of religious practices and spaces, as well as understandings of leadership and authority within contemporary Muslim communities. He has advised NGOs and think tanks and helped to set policy, as well as addressing audiences worldwide. His popular written work has featured in The Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Mosques and their ArchitecturesMosques and their EnvironmentSinan and Ottoman MosquesChinese MosquesUighur MosquesHui MosquesThe Mud Mosques of MaliThe Origins of the MasjidMosque FeaturesChapter 2: Mosque PracticesThe SalatThe emergence of Sunni and Shi‘i InterpretationsLebanon and Shi‘i Ithna‘ashari Mosque PracticesSunni Devotion to the Prophet and his Family: Cairene MosquesChapter 3: Shi‘i Sites of PietyIran’s Husayniyyas and TakiyasIndia’s Ashurkhanas and ImambarasThe Imambaras of LucknowThe Ashurkhanas of HyderabadThe Ismailis and the JamatkhanaChapter 4: Sufi Sites of DevotionSufi TariqasTracing Sufi Spaces of WorshipThe KhanaqahThe ZawiyaThe Tekke and TakiyaSenegal’s Tijani OrderIran’s Ni‘matullahi OrderTurkey’s Mevlevi OrderChapter 5: Transcending BoundariesThe Zikris of PakistanThe Zikr-KhanaThe DruzesConclusion: The Power and Perils of PluralismGlossaryNotes Further Reading List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on the Text Index

Rizwan Mawani is a Canadian educator and researcher who specialises in anthropology and comparative religious studies. His research focuses on the diversity of religious practices and spaces, as well as understandings of leadership and authority within contemporary Muslim communities. He has advised NGOs and think tanks and helped to set policy, as well as addressing audiences worldwide. His popular written work has featured in The Huffington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Mosques and their ArchitecturesMosques and their EnvironmentSinan and Ottoman MosquesChinese MosquesUighur MosquesHui MosquesThe Mud Mosques of MaliThe Origins of the MasjidMosque FeaturesChapter 2: Mosque PracticesThe SalatThe emergence of Sunni and Shi‘i InterpretationsLebanon and Shi‘i Ithna‘ashari Mosque PracticesSunni Devotion to the Prophet and his Family: Cairene MosquesChapter 3: Shi‘i Sites of PietyIran’s Husayniyyas and TakiyasIndia’s Ashurkhanas and ImambarasThe Imambaras of LucknowThe Ashurkhanas of HyderabadThe Ismailis and the JamatkhanaChapter 4: Sufi Sites of DevotionSufi TariqasTracing Sufi Spaces of WorshipThe KhanaqahThe ZawiyaThe Tekke and TakiyaSenegal’s Tijani OrderIran’s Ni‘matullahi OrderTurkey’s Mevlevi OrderChapter 5: Transcending BoundariesThe Zikris of PakistanThe Zikr-KhanaThe DruzesConclusion: The Power and Perils of PluralismGlossaryNotes Further Reading List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on the Text Index