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  • 1 - Spaces Both Radical and Revolutionary: The Intersectional Masjid

  • Michelle Moore Apotsos, Williams College, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Masjid in Contemporary Islamic Africa
    Published online:
    05 August 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021, pp 28-78

  • Summary

    The first chapter uses the lens of intersectionality to explore three different case studies involving masjid space on the continent. The first case study focuses on the development of spaces such as the Open Mosque (South Africa), which actively provides a space where men and women can engage equitably in performative spirituality. The second case study continues this discussion with the Al-Fitre Foundation, which is currently the continent’s first openly LGBT+ congregation and moves beyond gender-equitable sites to promote spaces for Muslims whose sexual identity does not conform to that traditionally interpreted by Islamic doctrine. The third case study addresses the destruction of Timbuktu’s masjid landscape by extremist group Ansar Dine in 2012 towards demonstrating that just as masjid spaces can empower identity, they can also disrupt, intervene, and even destroy it, given its function as a spatial text that articulates the specific sociopolitical character of its context.