How an Italian Amorphous Space Became a Twelver Shi’a Mosque
Abstract
This paper aims to explore the sense of “mosque†for Italy’s Twelver Shi’as through the study of a Shi’a organisation based in Turin. Some comparative references to Shi’a centres of Padua and Milan will demonstrate different meanings of these locals for their attendees. In the case of the Turin’s Shi’a centre two factors are deemed responsible of conferring mosque-ness to an afunctional and abandoned place: gender relations and the nature of initiatives held within its headquarters.
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