Marion Holmes Katz

Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Salāt, the five daily prayers of Islam.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780521887885
• ISBN-10: 0521887887
• Artikelnr.: 37294559

Autorenporträt

Marion Holmes Katz is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. Her publications include Body of Text: The Emergence of the Sunni Law of Ritual Purity (2002) and The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad: Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Canonical prayer (Sal
t) and supplication (du'
'): development and rules; 2. Valid prayer and ideal prayer; 3. Interpretive models: what is Sal
t, and what does it do?; 4. The community at prayer: congregational prayer, prayer leadership (im
ma), and the boundaries of the religious community; 5. Women and prayer.

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1. Canonical prayer (Salat) and supplication (du'a'): development and rules; 2. Valid prayer and ideal prayer; 3. Interpretive models: what is Salat, and what does it do?; 4. The community at prayer: congregational prayer, prayer leadership (imama), and the boundaries of the religious community; 5. Women and prayer.

Rezensionen

'Marion Holmes Katz's richly textured book offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Salat. This innovative study on the subject examines the different ways in which prayer has been understood in Islamic law, Sufi mysticism and Islamic philosophy.' Abrar