Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East

An Historical Perspective

Daniella Talmon-Heller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6096-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Daniella Talmon-Heller is a senior lecturer at the department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is the author of 'Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria: Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons under the Zangids and Ayyubids', Brill 2007 (winner of 2008 Tel Aviv Book award for research on Middle East History), co-editor of 'Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East', ed. with Katia Cytryn-Silverman (Brill 2014). Her research interests include the history of the medieval Middle East, Islamic thought and practice, and comparative religion.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Zusatzinfo	29 B/W illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-4744-6096-8 / 1474460968
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-6096-5 / 9781474460965
Zustand	Neuware