Métaphores architecturales dans la cosmologie du Coran

This article undertakes an examination of passages in the Qur’ān that employ architectural metaphors within a cosmological framework. In addition to highlighting certain biblical and parabiblical precedents for these motifs, the study places particular emphasis on exploring the potential grounding of these motifs in the material culture that prevailed in the centuries prior to the emergence of the Qur’ān. specifically, the article posits that many of these cosmological motifs appear to build on late antique church architecture.