Richard J. A. McGregor

Islam and the Devotional Object

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9781108483841
• ISBN-10: 1108483844
• Artikelnr.: 58022129

Autorenporträt

Richard J. A. McGregor is Associate Professor of Religion and Islam at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Sanctity and Mysticism in Medieval Egypt (2004), co-editor of The Development of Sufism in Mamluk Egypt (2006) and Sufism in the Ottoman Era (16th-18th C.) (2010), and a translator of the Arabic edition of The Epistle of the Brethren of Purity: The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Objects over distance
2. An exuberant and elusive palanquin
3. Processions, banners, and the religious spectacle
4. The relic and its witness
5. Religious topography and the relic
6. Defacing and displacing.