Sacred place and sacred time in the medieval Islamic Middle East : an historical perspective / Daniella Talmon-Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talmon-Heller, Daniella, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, -680.

Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī.

Islam--Middle East--Religion--History--To 1500--Sources.

Islam.

Religion--Practice--Middle East--History--To 1500--Sources.

Religion.

Sacred space.

History.

Shrines.

Middle East--Religion--History--To 1500--Sources.

Middle East.

Civilization, Medieval.

Shrines--Middle East--History--To 1500.

Sacred space--Middle East--History--To 1500.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

x, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced at sacred spaces and in sacred times through two detailed case studies: the shrines in honour of the head of al-Husayn (the martyred grandson of the Prophet), and the holy month of Rajab. The changing expressions of the veneration of the shrine and month are followed from the formative period of Islam until the late Mamluk period, paying attention to historical contexts and power relations. Readers will find interest in the attempt to integrate the two perspectives synchronically and diachronically, in a discussion of the relationship between the sanctification of space and time in individual and communal piety, and in the religious literature of the period.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1474460968

9781474460965

OCLC:

1117560998