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Notes to Chapter n
1 Translation of these Hadeeths were offered by Besim S. Hakim. Arab-Islamic Cities: Building and
Planning Principles (London: Kegan Paul International. 1988), 154.
2 See Kenith Brown (ed) Middle Eastern Cities in Comparative Perspective. (London: Ithaca Press,
1986).
3 Riaz Hassan, "The Nature of Islamic Urbanization- An Historical Perspective," Islamic Culture (July
1969): 233.
4
Kevin Lynch. Good City Form (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987).
5 Ramos Rapport. The Meaning of the Built Environment (London: Sage Publications, 1983), 89.
6 E. Galantay, "Islamic Identity and the Metropolis: The Search for Continuity" Urbanism In Islam: the
Proceedings of the International Conference on Urbanism in Islam (Tokyo: ICUIT, 1989): 1-24.
7
S. A1 Hathloul, Traditions, Continuity and Change in the Physical Environment: The Arab-Muslim
City Unpublished Dissertation, Department of Architecture, MIT (1981).
8 Akbar (1987), op cit.
9
Davis Kingsley, "The Urbanization of Human Population," In The City in Newly Developing
Countries: Readings on Urbanism and Urbanization, edited by Gerald Breese, 5-20 (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960).
A.E. J. Morris. History of Urban Development: Before the Industrial Revolutions (New York: John
Wiley & Sons, 1986), 1.
G. Sjoberg. The Preindustrial City: Past and Present (New York:The Free Press, 1960), 160,55.
Holy Quran, 112:1-4.
13 Holy Quran, 51:56.
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On the hereafter, Muslims invoke many verses including this one in the Holy Quran, in which Allah
Says "The unbelievers claim that they will never be resurrected, Say to them (O Mohammed), Yes, by
my Lord, you shall surely be resurrected. Then you shall be told of all that you did. And that is easy
for Allah [that is to recreate life]." 64: 7.
Hadeeth.
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^ Hadeeth.
17 The name Islam is derived from the word silm, peace. In Arabic, it means submission. By accepting
Islam, a person is expected to submit his life to Allah, and model his conduct to the teachings of the