Reading the Islamic City: Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

(Lexington Books) Kahera studies the effects of the Maliki school of Islamic law on the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. He considers Foucault’s power/knowledge matrix as it applies to scholars and legal judgments in the realm of architecture and urbanism. Kahera is a professor of architecture and community planning at Prairie View A&M University and the director of the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture.