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Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam - Softcover

Wheeler, Brannon

 
9780226888040: Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226888045 ISBN 13: 9780226888040
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature but from their social character. Building upon this insight, Mecca and Eden uses Islamic exegetical and legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with the sanctuary at Mecca.

Integrating Islamic examples into the comparative study of religion, Brannon Wheeler shows how the treatment of rituals, relics, and territory is related to the more general mythological depiction of the origins of Islamic civilization. Along the way, Wheeler considers the contrast between Mecca and Eden in Muslim rituals, the dispersal and collection of relics of the prophet Muhammad, their relationship to the sanctuary at Mecca, and long tombs associated with the gigantic size of certain prophets mentioned in the Quran.

Mecca and Eden succeeds, as few books have done, in making Islamic sources available to the broader study of religion.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brannon Wheeler is director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and Visiting Distinguished Professor of History and Politics at the United States Naval Academy.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226888045
ISBN 13 
9780226888040
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
333
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