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Constructing and Contesting Holy Places in Medieval Islam and Beyond

✍ Scribed by Andreas Grke, Mattia Guidetti (eds.)

Publisher
Brill
Year
2024
Tongue
English
Leaves
408
Series
Islamic History and Civilization, 200
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This collection of essays presents a wide range of case studies devoted to the establishment, growth, and demise of holy places in Muslim societies.

✦ Table of Contents

‎Contents
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‎Chapter 1. Introducing Holy Places in Islam (Görke and Guidetti)
‎Chapter 2. Caliphs and the Hajj after Hārūn al-Rashīd (Munt)
‎Chapter 3. The Making of the “City of Saints”: Fez as a Place of Prophetic Benediction in the Hagiographical Discourse of the Medieval and the Modern Period (Vimercati Sanseverino)
‎Chapter 4. The Sacred Spaces of Zabīd: Narratives, Powers, and Identity in Medieval Yemen (Mochtari de Pierrepont)
‎Chapter 5. Shah-i Zinda: Notes on the History of the Shrine of Qutham Ibn al-ʿAbbās in Samarqand (Haase)
‎Chapter 6. Sufis, Sultans, and the Making of Sacred Geographies in India: the Case of Aḥmad Khattū’s Dargāh (Mondini)
‎Chapter 7. Faith Comes from the Sea: Maritime Symbolism in the Origin Stories of Three Muslim Pilgrimage Sites in Java (Quinn)
‎Chapter 8. Creating Islamic Landscapes and Holy Places in Sudanese Nubia (Edwards)
‎Chapter 9. Multiplication, translocation, and adaptation: Sarı Saltuq’s multiple embodied localities throughout Eastern Europe (Kuehn)
‎Chapter 10. Producing Sufi Shrines in Modern Senegal (Ross)
‎Chapter 11. Hala Sultan Tekke—A Small Mosque in a Sea of Narratives (Hendrich)
‎Chapter 12. Prophet Shrines and Religious Communities in Mosul (Wolper)
‎Chapter 13. A New Wave of Iconoclasm? The Destruction of Holy Places in the Contemporary Islamic World (Patrizi)
‎Index of Personal Names
‎Index of Place Names
‎Index of Themes

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