ABSTRACT

At a fundamental level, such must also have been the city’s space, so extensively was it bound by walls. On this view, although the medina comprised a variety of qualitatively different spaces within its perimeters – mosques, abattoirs, ovens, and houses, for example – unevenly informing them all would have been a shame-laden, break-and-rotate space. What was considered shameless in the mosque might well have been allowed in the abattoir, but both settings remained part of the mirror-like stage of Fez and its space of separation and reversal.