Ruba Kana’an
Head of Education and Scholarly Programmes
The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
Mosque architecture itself is not the focus of Muslim historical discourse, yet a
broad range of legal, historical, and didactic textual sources dealing with prayer in
general, and the Friday prayer in particular, provide a valuable insight into how mosques
were perceived and used. This talk will examine Friday mosques in specific contexts and the textual discourse relevant to them highlighting the issues, concerns and principles involved in the Muslim understanding of the Friday prayer and the Friday mosques, and broadening the art historical debate about them.
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