Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East

A Historical Perspective

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Talmon-Heller, Daniella (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies

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This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates how Muslims thought about and practised 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 (arguably) holy month of Rajab. Author Daniella Talmon-Heller explores the diverse expressions of the veneration of the shrine and the month from the formative period of Islam until the late Mamluk period. She pays particular attention to changing political and sectarian affiliations and to the development of new genres of religious literature. And she juxtaposes the sanctification of space and time in individual and communal Sunni, Ithna'ashari and Isma'ili piety.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-14
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt464 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Antal sidor288
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474460972

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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.

Acknowledgements List of figures and mapsINTRODUCTION 1 Emic Terms and Etic Concepts2 The State of the ArtPART I. A SACRED PLACE: The Shrine of al-Husayn's Head3 From Karbala to Damascus: A Relic with Multiple Shrines4 The Commemoration of al-Husayn in Fatimid Ascalon5 Excursus: Donations to Mosque and Shrines6 Why Ascalon? Christian martyrs and Muslim murābiṭūn (defenders)7 Excursus: Medieval Pilgrimage: Victor Turner's Input8 From Ascalon to Cairo: The Duplication of Sacred Space9 Excursus: Faḍāʾil ʿAsqalān (The Merits of Ascalon) - a preliminary list of 9th-15th century works10 From Shiʿi to Sunni: The Shrine under the Ayyubids and Mamluks11 Excursus – al-Husayn and Saladin in Palestinian Lore12 The Shrine in Ascalon under the Ayyubids and Mamluks (twelfth-sixteenth centuries)13 Excursus: Ibn Taymiyya on the Veneration of the Head of al-Husayn14 SummaryPART II. A SACRED TIME: The Month of Rajab15 Rajab in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in Early IslamTruceʿUmra (‘minor pilgrimage’) and Ritual SlaughterFastingPrayers and SupplicationsSermons16 Excursus: The Founding of an Islamic Lunar Calenda17 Rajab during Fatimid RuleOfficial Rites of RajabʿUmra and ZiyāraPrayers and SupplicationsFasting18 Excursus: Istighfār19 Rajab under the Ayyubids and MamluksPrayers and SupplicationsThe Night of AscensionFasting ʿUmra (‘minor pilgrimage’) and Ziyāra (visitation)Charitable Giving and other DevotionsProcessions20 Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of the Sacred Months21 SummaryFINAL COMMENTS: Spacial and Temporal Sanctity