Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East

A Historical Perspective

Daniella Talmon-Heller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474460965 (ISBN)

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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.

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 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 murābiṭūn (defenders)

7 Excursus: Medieval Pilgrimage: Victor Turner's Input

8 From Ascalon to Cairo: The Duplication of Sacred Space

9 Excursus: Faḍāʾil ʿAsqalān (The Merits of Ascalon) - a preliminary list of 9th-15th century works

10 From Shiʿi 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

Truce

ʿUmra (‘minor pilgrimage’) and Ritual Slaughter

Fasting

Prayers and Supplications

Sermons

16 Excursus: The Founding of an Islamic Lunar Calenda

17 Rajab during Fatimid Rule

Official Rites of Rajab

ʿUmra and Ziyāra

Prayers and Supplications

Fasting

18 Excursus: Istighfār

19 Rajab under the Ayyubids and Mamluks

Prayers and Supplications

The Night of Ascension

Fasting

ʿUmra (‘minor pilgrimage’) and Ziyāra (visitation)

Charitable Giving and other Devotions

Processions

20 Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of the Sacred Months

21 Summary

FINAL COMMENTS: Spacial and Temporal Sanctity

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Zusatzinfo	29 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	596 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9781474460965 / 9781474460965
Zustand	Neuware