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Prayer in Islamic thought and practice / Marion Holmes Katz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Themes in Islamic history ; 6.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781107341340
  • 1107341345
  • 9781139034333
  • 1139034332
  • 9781107347595
  • 1107347599
  • 1107357217
  • 9781107357211
  • 1107233801
  • 9781107233805
  • 1107343844
  • 9781107343849
  • 1107255325
  • 9781107255326
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prayer in Islamic thought and practice.DDC classification:
  • 297.3/822 23
LOC classification:
  • BP178 .K35 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Canonical prayer (ṣalat) and supplication (duʻa'): development and rules -- Ṣalat: conditions and components -- Supplication: duʻa' -- Valid prayer and ideal prayer -- Intent (nīya) -- Reverence (khushu') and concentration (ḥuḍūr al-qalb) -- The cultivation of emotion -- Ethical transformation -- Interpretive models: what is ṣalat, and what does it do? -- The model of the royal audience -- Prayer as communication -- Ṣalat as an exercise in self-discipline -- Ṣalat as a reflection of the cosmos -- Modern developments -- The community at prayer: congregational prayer, prayer leadership (imama), and the boundaries of the religious community -- Friday prayers -- Leadership in prayer (imama) -- Prayer behind a leader of another legal school -- Knowledge of prayer and its distribution in the community -- Failure to pray -- Modern developments -- Women and prayer -- Women's prayer leadership (imama) and placement within the congregation -- Women's mosque access -- Knowledge and mastery of prayer.
Summary: Offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Salat, the five daily prayers of Islam.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Canonical prayer (ṣalat) and supplication (duʻa'): development and rules -- Ṣalat: conditions and components -- Supplication: duʻa' -- Valid prayer and ideal prayer -- Intent (nīya) -- Reverence (khushu') and concentration (ḥuḍūr al-qalb) -- The cultivation of emotion -- Ethical transformation -- Interpretive models: what is ṣalat, and what does it do? -- The model of the royal audience -- Prayer as communication -- Ṣalat as an exercise in self-discipline -- Ṣalat as a reflection of the cosmos -- Modern developments -- The community at prayer: congregational prayer, prayer leadership (imama), and the boundaries of the religious community -- Friday prayers -- Leadership in prayer (imama) -- Prayer behind a leader of another legal school -- Knowledge of prayer and its distribution in the community -- Failure to pray -- Modern developments -- Women and prayer -- Women's prayer leadership (imama) and placement within the congregation -- Women's mosque access -- Knowledge and mastery of prayer.

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Offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Salat, the five daily prayers of Islam.

English.