Diverse Stakes, Actors, Times, Spaces, and Materialities: The Construction of Mosques in Southeast Europe and the Case of (Interwar) Albania
Diverse Stakes, Actors, Times, Spaces, and Materialities: The Construction of Mosques in Southeast Europe and the Case of (Interwar) Albania

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the building process of mosques in Albania during the interwar period in three cities: Durrës, Sarandë, and Tirana. The comparison shows that the dynamics that contributed to the construction of these new places of worship were diverse and processual. Diverse stakes, actors, temporalities, spaces, and materialities form a useful matrix in order to study the building of mosques as processes and to understand the religious, social, political, and economic dimensions underlying them. This article also shows how such an analytical framework could be useful concerning the present time, even if transnational dimensions are more important today.

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