The construction of new, purpose‐built mosques in Europe often stirs a number of controversies. This paper looks at one such project: a new mosque building in Almere, a town near Amsterdam. It focuses on two kinds of controversies: discussions between various kinds of mosque committee members about aesthetic preferences and how they relate to members’ views about Islam in Europe, and neighborhood protests against the new mosque. Although the latter kind of conflicts have attracted some scholarly attention, most of this work treats these conflicts as discursive controversies and gives little attention to the material form. On the other hand, there is a new kind of literature on creativity and architectural design that emphasizes material processes but fails to analyze how these processes are related to larger political issues. By focusing on the temporal aspects of material processes, particularly the attention to form, I seek to merge these two approaches in order to analyze the mosque controversies as at once material and political.

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预期的清真寺：计划中的建筑物的政治影响

在欧洲建造专门建造的新清真寺常常引起许多争议。本文着眼于一个这样的项目：位于阿姆斯特丹附近的一个小镇阿尔梅勒的新清真寺建筑。它着重于两种争议：各种清真寺委员会成员之间关于审美偏好的讨论以及它们如何与成员对欧洲伊斯兰教的看法有关，以及针对新清真寺的邻里抗议。尽管后一种冲突引起了学术界的关注，但大部分工作都将这些冲突视为话语争议，而很少关注实质性形式。另一方面，有一种关于创造力和建筑设计的新型文献，它强调物质过程，但未能分析这些过程与更大的政治问题之间的关系。