Muslims and others in sacred space / edited by Margaret Cormack.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cormack, Margaret.

Series:

Religion, culture, and history series

Religion, culture, and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Relations.

Islam.

Relations.

Islamic shrines.

Sacred space.

Physical Description:

xiv, 232 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York [N.Y.] : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This collection of seven essays offers wide-ranging and in-depth studies of locations sacred to Muslims, of the histories of these sites (real, or imagined), and of the ways in which Muslims and members of other religions have interacted peaceably in sacred times and spaces.

After a theoretical introduction by Peter Gottschalk, David Damrel discusses historic and modern controversies surrounding Muslim practices at shrines in South Asia. Lance Laird presents a case study of a shrine holy to Palestinian Christians, who identify its patron as St. George, as well as to Palestinian Muslims, who believe that its patron is al Khadr/Khidr. Ethel Sara Wolper illustrates how al Khidr's patronage was used also to show Muslim connections to Christian sites in Anatolia, and JoAnn Gross's essay explores oral and written traditions linking shrines in Tajikistan to traditional Muslim locations and figures. A chapter by the late Thomas Sizgorich examines how Christian and Muslim authors used monastic settings to reimagine the relationship between the two religions, and Alexandra Cuffel offers a study of attitudes towards the mixing of religious groups in religious festivals in eleventh- to sixteenth-century Egypt. Eric Ross shows how the Layenne Sufi order incorporates a singular combination of Christian and Muslim figures and festivals in its history and practices.

Muslims and Others in Sacred Space will be an invaluable resource to anyone interested in the complex meanings of sacred sites in Muslim history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Gottschalk

Baraka Besieged: Islamism, neofundamentalism and shared sacred space in South Asia / David Damrel

Boundaries and baraka: Christians, Muslims, and a Palestinian saint / Lance D. Laird

Christmas in Cambérène, or how Muhammad begets Jesus in Senegal / Eric Ross

Environmental disasters and political cominance in shared festivals and intercessions among medieval Muslims, Christians and Jews / Alexandra Cuffel

Khidr and the politics of place: creating landscapes of continuity / Ethel Sara Wolper

Foundational legends, shrines, and Isma'ili identity in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan / Jo-Ann Gross

Monks and their daughters: monasteries as Muslim-Christian boundaries /

Thomas sizgorich.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0199925062

9780199925049

0199925046

9780199925063

OCLC:

778636779

Publisher Number:

99951522972