Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East : : A Historical Perspective /

Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East : : A Historical Perspective / / Daniella Talmon-Heller.

Explores the construction of sanctity and its manifestations in the medieval Muslim Middle EastDraws on a wide variety of primary sources from many genres: narrative and documentary sources, travelogues, epigraphic and material evidence, legal, devotional and prescriptive religious literatureDeals w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Talmon-Heller, Daniella,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 29 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Map of the Middle East
  • Introduction
  • 1 Etic Concepts and Emic Terms
  • 2 The State of the Art
  • PART ONE A Sacred Place: The Shrine of al-Husayn’s Head
  • Introduction
  • 3 From Karbala to Damascus: A Relic with Multiple Shrines
  • 4 The Commemoration of al-Husayn in Fatimid Ascalon
  • 5 Excursus: Donations to Mosques and Shrines
  • 6 Why Ascalon? Christian Martyrs and Muslim Murābiṭūn (Defenders)
  • 7 Excursus: Medieval Pilgrimage – Victor Turner’s Input
  • 8 From Ascalon to Cairo: The Duplication of Sacred Space
  • 9 Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of Ascalon
  • 10 The Shrine in Cairo under the Sunni Ayyubids and Mamluks
  • 11 Excursus: al-Husayn and Saladin in Palestinian Lore
  • 12 The Shrine in Ascalon under the Ayyubids and Mamluks
  • 13 Excursus: Ibn Taymiyya on the Veneration of the Head of al-Husayn
  • 14 Summary
  • PART TWO A Sacred Time: The Month of Rajab
  • Introduction
  • 15 Rajab in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in Early Islam
  • 16 Excursus: The Founding of an Islamic Lunar Calendar
  • 17 Rajab Under Fatimid Rule
  • 18 Excursus: Istighfār (Seeking Divine Forgiveness)
  • 19 Rajab under the Ayyubids and Mamluks
  • 20 Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of the Sacred Months
  • 21 Summary
  • Final Comments: Spacial and Temporal Sanctity
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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