Why Not Build the Mosque?
An ethnography of a long-unbuilt mosque in Greece that explores government operations and contemporary democracy
Why Not Build the Mosque? tells the story of the Greek state’s centuries-long attempt to build a central mosque. After the fall of Ottoman Empire, Greek Orthodoxy entwined with Greek nationalism, and by the twentieth century, the state came to imagine Islam as incompatible with a Greek-s...
An ethnography of a long-unbuilt mosque in Greece that explores government operations and contemporary democracy
Why Not Build the Mosque? tells the story of the Greek state’s centuries-long attempt to build a central mosque. After the fall of Ottoman Empire, Greek Orthodoxy entwined with Greek nationalism, and by the twentieth century, the state came to imagine Islam as incompatible with a Greek-s...
