Daniella Talmon-Heller

Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East (eBook, PDF)

A Historical Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474460996
• Artikelnr.: 72430389

Autorenporträt

Daniella Talmon-Heller is Senior Lecturer in the department of Middle East Studies at 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), which won the 2008 Tel Aviv Book award for research on Middle East History. She is co-editor with Katia Cytryn-Silverman of Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East (Brill 2014). Her research interests include the history of the medieval Middle East, Islamic thought and practice, and comparative religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; List of figures and maps; Introduction; 1. Emic Terms and Etic Concepts; 2. The State of the Art; PART I: A SACRED PLACE: The Shrine of al-Husayn's Head; 3. From Karbala to Damascus: A Relic with Multiple Shrines; 4. The Commemoration of al-Husayn in Fatimid Ascalon; 5. Excursus: Donations to Mosque and Shrines; 6. Why Ascalon? Christian martyrs and Muslim murabi
un (defenders); 7. Excursus: Medieval Pilgrimage: Victor Turner's Input; 8. From Ascalon to Cairo: The Duplication of Sacred Space; 9. Excursus: Fa
a
il
Asqalan (The Merits of Ascalon) - a preliminary list of 9th-15th century works; 10 From Shi
i to Sunni: The Shrine under the Ayyubids and Mamluks; 11. Excursus - al-Husayn and Saladin in Palestinian Lore; 12. The Shrine in Ascalon under the Ayyubids and Mamluks (twelfth-sixteenth centuries); 13. Excursus: Ibn Taymiyya on the Veneration of the Head of al-Husayn; 14. Summary; PART II: A SACRED TIME: The Month of Rajab; 15. Rajab in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in Early Islam; 16. Excursus: The Founding of an Islamic Lunar Calendar; 17. Rajab during Fatimid Rule; 18. Excursus: Istighfar; 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.