Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria
Title | Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria PDF eBook |
Author | Daniella Talmon-Heller |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 900415809X |
A study of the religious thought and practice of Muslims of all social echelons in Syria during the crusades and the anti-Frankish jihad, this book offers an intimate and complex analysis of the texture of medieval Islamic piety.
Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East
Title | Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Talmon-Heller Daniella Talmon-Heller |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-03-18 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 1474460992 |
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.
Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo
Title | Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo PDF eBook |
Author | Yasser Tabbaa |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780271043319 |
Tabbaa argues that the intense palatial and religious architectural activity of the period was intended to create a royal image of the Ayyubid state while also fostering links between it and the urban population. His study is based on an entirely new evaluation of the architectural and epigraphic aspects of the standing monuments of the period. It presents for the first time full photographic coverage of these monuments, as well as many new plans and other renderings, and pays close attention to monumental inscriptions, correcting and augmenting previous studies. The book utilizes the full panoply of the available literary sources, including topographies, chronicles, travel accounts, and poetry.
Shrines of the 'Alids in Medieval Syria
Title | Shrines of the 'Alids in Medieval Syria PDF eBook |
Author | Mulder Stephennie Mulder |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2019-08-06 |
Genre | ARCHITECTURE |
ISBN | 1474471161 |
The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in SyriaThe 'Alids (descendants of the Prophet Muhammad) are among the most revered figures in Islam, beloved by virtually all Muslims, regardless of sectarian affiliation. This study argues that despite the common identification of shrines as 'Shi'i' spaces, they have in fact always been unique places of pragmatic intersectarian exchange and shared piety, even - and perhaps especially - during periods of sectarian conflict. Using a rich variety of previously unexplored sources, including textual, archaeological, architectural, and epigraphic evidence, Stephennie Mulder shows how these shrines created a unifying Muslim 'holy land' in medieval Syria, and proposes a fresh conceptual approach to thinking about landscape in Islamic art. In doing so, she argues against a common paradigm of medieval sectarian conflict, complicates the notion of Sunni Revival, and provides new evidence for the negotiated complexity of sectarian interactions in the period.
Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
Title | Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria PDF eBook |
Author | Daphna Ephrat |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-11-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781641892087 |
Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety
Title | Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety PDF eBook |
Author | Daphna Ephrat |
Publisher | Harvard CMES |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674032019 |
This book represents the first continuous history of Sufism in Palestine. Covering the period between the rise of Islam and the spread of Ottoman rule and drawing on vast biographical material and complementary evidence, the book describes the social trajectory that Sufism followed. The narrative centers on the process by which ascetics, mystics, and holy figures living in medieval Palestine and collectively labeled "Sufis," disseminated their traditions, formed communities, and helped shape an Islamic society and space. The work makes an original contribution to the study of the diffusion of Islam's religious traditions and the formation of communities of believers in medieval Palestine, as well as the Islamization of Palestinian landscape and the spread of popular religiosity in this area. The study of the area-specific is placed within the broader context of the history of Sufism, and the book is laced with observations about the historical social dimensions of Islamic mysticism in general. Central to its subject matters are the diffusion of Sufi traditions, the extension of the social horizons of Sufism, and the emergence of institutions and public spaces around the Sufi friend of God. As such, the book is of interest to historians in the fields of Sufism, Islam, and the Near East.
Law and Piety in Medieval Islam
Title | Law and Piety in Medieval Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Megan H. Reid |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2013-07-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107067111 |
The Ayyubid and Mamluk periods were two of the most intellectually vibrant in Islamic history. Megan H. Reid's book, which traverses three centuries from 1170 to 1500, recovers the stories of medieval men and women who were renowned not only for their intellectual prowess but also for their devotional piety. Through these stories, the book examines trends in voluntary religious practice that have been largely overlooked in modern scholarship. This type of piety was distinguished by the pursuit of God's favor through additional rituals, which emphasized the body as an instrument of worship, and through the rejection of worldly pleasures, and even society itself. Using an array of sources including manuals of law, fatwa collections, chronicles, and obituaries, the book shows what it meant to be a good Muslim in the medieval period and how Islamic law helped to define holy behavior. In its concentration on personal piety, ritual, and ethics the book offers an intimate perspective on medieval Islamic society.