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Parution : Essam Ayyad, The making of the mosque. A Survey of Religious Imperative, Gorgias Press, avril 2019. Acknowledgments (ix) Transliteration (xi)Charts, Tables, Plates and Figures (xiii)Chapter One. Introduction—Aim and Scope (1)1.1 Why the religious context for mosque evolution has been underestimated so far? (4) 1.2 Dominant perspectives on the Prophet and his homeland (7) 1.3 Problems with these views (21)1.4 Questions and methodology (43)Chapter 2. Sources for the Study of Early Mosques (47) 2.1 Introduction (47) 2.2 Arabic literary sources (48)2.3 Other existing evidence (69)2.4 Conclusion (87)Chapter 3. Studying Ḥadīth (93) 3.1 Introduction (93) 3.2 Ḥadīth in modern scholarship (96) 3.3 History of ḥadīth transmission (106)3.4 Dialectics about the authoritativeness of the tradition (123) 3.5 Conclusion (133)Chapter 4. The ‘House of the Prophet’ or the ‘Mosque of the Prophet’? (137) 4.1 Introduction (137)4.2 Existing theories on the Prophet’s building (138)4.3 The ‘House of the Prophet’ theory (147)4.4 The ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ theory (150)4.5 Ḥadīth and the ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ (166)4.6 The Qurʾān and the ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ (180)4.7 Other mosques in the time of the Prophet (196)4.8 Conclusion (205)Chapter 5. A Prophetic Perspective of the Mosque: Layout and Architectural Components (209) 5.1 Introduction (209) 5.2 Status of the mosque (211) 5.3 Site (216)5.4 Mosque layout (229) 5.5 Architectural components of the mosque (231)5.6 Conclusion (265)Chapter 6. A Prophetic Perspective of the Mosque: Elaboration and Decoration (269) 6.1 Introduction (269) 6.2 Discussing anti-building traditions (269) 6.3 Mosque-related ḥadīths: a theoretical framework (284) 6.4 Decoration (299) 6.5 Conclusion (313)Chapter 7. Evolution of Mosque Architecture: Between‘Orthodoxy’ and Other Modalities (315) 7.1 Introduction (315) 7.2 Evolution of the mosque under the Rāshidūn (322)7.3 Evolution of the mosque under the Umayyads (347)7.4 Conclusion (389)Chapter 8. Conclusions (395)Bibliography (407)Index (455)https://www.gorgiaspress.com/the-making-of-the-mosqueDr Essam Ayyad received his PhD in the history of Islamic civilization from the University of Leeds, UK, in 2011. He is currently working as an assistant professor of Islamic history at Qatar University. Before joining Qatar, he was elected to Imam Tirmizi Visiting Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, a recognized independent centre of the University of Oxford. He joined Oxford as a visiting research fellow during Trinity Term 2016. Earlier in 2015, Dr Ayyad joined the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge as a visiting scholar. His main interest is to explore the array of prompts and modalities that shaped the various aspects of Islamic civilization, with most of his studies centring on the early period.&#160;&#160;