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Muhammad's grave : death rites and the making of Islamic society / Leor Halevi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231511933
  • 0231511930
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Muhammad's grave.DDC classification:
  • 297.385 23
LOC classification:
  • BP50
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: funerary traditions and the making of Islamic society -- Tombstones: markers of social and religious change, 650-800 -- Washing the corpse in Arabia and Mesopotamia -- Shrouds: worldly possessions in an economy of salvation -- Wailing for the dead in the House of Islam -- Urban processions and communal prayers: opportunities for social, economic, and religious distinction -- The politics of burial and tomb construction -- The torture of spirit and corpse in the grave -- Epilogue: Death rites and the process of Islamic socialization.
Summary: In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting highly contested sources. His original research reveals that religious scholars of the early Islamic period produced codes of funerary law not only to define the handling of a Muslim corpse but also to transform everyday urban practices. Relying on oral traditions, these scholars established new social patterns in the cities of Arabia, Mesopotamia, and the eastern Mediterranean. They distinguished Islamic rites from Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian rites and changed the way men and women interacted publicly and privately.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)619701

Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-378) and index.

Print version record.

Introduction: funerary traditions and the making of Islamic society -- Tombstones: markers of social and religious change, 650-800 -- Washing the corpse in Arabia and Mesopotamia -- Shrouds: worldly possessions in an economy of salvation -- Wailing for the dead in the House of Islam -- Urban processions and communal prayers: opportunities for social, economic, and religious distinction -- The politics of burial and tomb construction -- The torture of spirit and corpse in the grave -- Epilogue: Death rites and the process of Islamic socialization.

In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting highly contested sources. His original research reveals that religious scholars of the early Islamic period produced codes of funerary law not only to define the handling of a Muslim corpse but also to transform everyday urban practices. Relying on oral traditions, these scholars established new social patterns in the cities of Arabia, Mesopotamia, and the eastern Mediterranean. They distinguished Islamic rites from Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian rites and changed the way men and women interacted publicly and privately.

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