ABSTRACT
This investigation is far from over. In fact, this book is just the most recent addition to a conversation between architecture and Islam in West Africa that has been going on for eleven hundred years. As such, I hope it contributes to the new set of dialogues occurring across the region, ones that focus on a rethinking and reconfiguring of Islamic architecture to accommodate the changing nature of communities that are both firmly situated in their faith and also active within a modern global world. Larabanga's current situation speaks to architecture's relationship with culture as a response to the social, political, and environmental pressures characterizing the present context of the community. Simultaneously, it offers tangible solutions to the problems of existing in a society rooted in the past, present, and future.
