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Paperback / softback. New. 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. In each chapter Halevi explores a different layer of human interaction, following the movement of the corpse from the deathbed to the grave. In the process he analyzes the real and imaginary relationships between husbands and wives, prayer leaders and mourners,…
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Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society Paperback - 2011
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- Title Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society
- Author Leor Halevi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2011-07-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231137430 / 0231137435
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 5.7 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 14.48 x 2.79 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Dewey Decimal Code 297.385
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