The Holy City of Medina

Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Middle East Religions, Islam, Art & Architecture, Architecture
Cover of the book The Holy City of Medina by Harry Munt, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Harry Munt ISBN: 9781139985789
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: July 31, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Harry Munt
ISBN: 9781139985789
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 31, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the course of the first three Islamic centuries (the seventh to ninth centuries CE). This was a dynamic period that witnessed the evolution of many Islamic political, religious and legal doctrines, and the book situates Medina's emerging sanctity within the appropriate historical contexts. The book focuses on the roles played by the Prophet Muhammad, by the Umayyad and early Abbasid caliphs and by Muslim legal scholars. It shows that Medina's emergence as a holy city, alongside Mecca and Jerusalem, as well as the development of many of the doctrines associated with its sanctity, was the result of gradual and contested processes, and was intimately linked with important contemporary developments concerning the legitimation of political, religious and legal authority in the Islamic world.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the course of the first three Islamic centuries (the seventh to ninth centuries CE). This was a dynamic period that witnessed the evolution of many Islamic political, religious and legal doctrines, and the book situates Medina's emerging sanctity within the appropriate historical contexts. The book focuses on the roles played by the Prophet Muhammad, by the Umayyad and early Abbasid caliphs and by Muslim legal scholars. It shows that Medina's emergence as a holy city, alongside Mecca and Jerusalem, as well as the development of many of the doctrines associated with its sanctity, was the result of gradual and contested processes, and was intimately linked with important contemporary developments concerning the legitimation of political, religious and legal authority in the Islamic world.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689–1815 by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Rational Decision and Causality by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Tracheotomy Management by Harry Munt
Cover of the book The First Farmers of Europe by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Extra-Cranial Applications of Diffusion-Weighted MRI by Harry Munt
Cover of the book The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4, Globalizations, 1945–2011 by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Abortion Rights by Harry Munt
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Modernism and Race by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Dynamics of Quantised Vortices in Superfluids by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Ship Resistance and Propulsion by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision by Harry Munt
Cover of the book The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement by Harry Munt
Cover of the book Brownian Models of Performance and Control by Harry Munt
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy