TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halevi,Leor
TI  - Muhammad's grave: death rites and the making of Islamic society 
SN  - 9780231511933
AV  - BP50 
U1  - 297.385 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, Chichester
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Muḥammad,
KW  - Islam
KW  - History
KW  - Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Customs and practices
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Funérailles
KW  - Rites et cérémonies islamiques
KW  - Coutumes et pratiques
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Rituals & Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Religion & beliefs
KW  - thema
KW  - Worship, rites & ceremonies
KW  - Islamic life & practice
KW  - Religion
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Empire islamique
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Originally published: 2007; Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-378) and index; 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; Limited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, VLEbooks 1 User Licence. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password
N2  - 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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