The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5263-2 (ISBN)
In various parts of the Islamic world over the past decades virulent attacks have targeted Islamic funeral and sacral architecture. Rather than being random acts of vandalism, these are associated with the idea of performing one’s religious duty as attested to in the Salafi/Wahhabi tradition and texts. Graves, shrines and tombs are regarded by some Muslims as having the potential to tempt a believer to polytheism. Hence the duty to level the graves to the ground (taswiyat al-qubūr).
In illuminating the ideology behind these acts, this book explains the current destruction of graves in the Islamic world and traces the ideological sources of iconoclasm in their historical perspective, from medieval theological and legal debates to contemporary Islamist movements including ISIS.
Ondřej Beránek is Director of the Oriental Institute at the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is editor of Arab Revolutions: Democratic Challenges, Political Islam (Academia, 2013) and co-author (with Pavel Tupek) of The Two Faces of Islamic Charity (CDK, 2008). Both publications are in Czech. Pavel Ťupek is a Researcher and Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and African Studies at Charles University, Prague. He is author of Salafi Islam (Academia, 2015) (in Czech).
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 – Graves and Shrines in Medieval Islam: From Pre-Islamic Times to Ibn Taymiyya’s LegacyChapter 2 – Early Wahhabism and the Beginnings of Modern SalafismChapter 3 – Saudi Arabia between Pan-Islamism, Iconoclasm and Political LegitimacyChapter 4 – Following Current Paths of Destruction: ISIS and BeyondConclusionBibliographyIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.08.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 18 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 416 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-5263-9 / 1474452639 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-5263-2 / 9781474452632 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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