Mecca and Eden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mecca and Eden write by Brannon Wheeler. This book was released on 2006-07. Mecca and Eden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature but from their social character. Building upon this insight, Mecca and Eden uses Islamic exegetical and legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with the sanctuary at Mecca. Integrating Islamic examples into the comparative study of religion, Brannon Wheeler shows how the treatment of rituals, relics, and territory is related to the more general mythological depiction of the origins of Islamic civilization. Along the way, Wheeler considers the contrast between Mecca and Eden in Muslim rituals, the dispersal and collection of relics of the prophet Muhammad, their relationship to the sanctuary at Mecca, and long tombs associated with the gigantic size of certain prophets mentioned in the Quran. Mecca and Eden succeeds, as few books have done, in making Islamic sources available to the broader study of religion.
Conceiving Identities
Conceiving Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conceiving Identities write by Kathryn M. Kueny. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Conceiving Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it. Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a womans reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treatises, legal pronouncements, historiographies, zoologies, and other literary materials, this study considers how medieval Muslim scholars map the female reproductive body according to broader, cosmological schemes to generate a womans role as mother. By close consideration of folk medicine and magic, this book also reveals how medieval women contest the traditional maternal identities imagined for them and thereby reinvent themselves as mothers and Muslims. This innovative examination of the discourse and practices surrounding maternity forges new ground as it takes up the historical and epistemic construction of medieval Muslim womens identities.
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.)
Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.) write by Sebastian Günther. This book was released on 2017-02-20. Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (2 vols.) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter. It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi‘i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism, and other scholarly disciplines reflecting Islamicate pluralism and cosmopolitanism. Gathering material from all parts of the Muslim world, ranging from Islamic Spain to Indonesia, and the entirety of Islamic history, this publication in two volumes also integrates research from comparative religion, art history, sociology, anthropology and literary studies. Unparalleled and unprecedented in its scope and comprehensiveness, Roads to Paradise promises to become the definitive reference work on Islamic eschatology for the years to come.
A Stranger is Calling
A Stranger is Calling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Stranger is Calling write by Anton Wessels. This book was released on 2017-02-09. A Stranger is Calling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abraham, the father of all believers, plays host to three strangers, one of whom is God, and thus sets an example for others to follow. Jews, Christians, and Muslims often treat each other as strangers. Their Holy Books are not the cause of their conflicts and enmity but rather show the way to solve them. They tell a common story of the lifelong journey of the human being to the promised city, the promised land, and the promised world where justice and righteousness reign.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saudi Arabia write by Sherifa Zuhur. This book was released on 2012-01-05. Saudi Arabia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes all aspects of Saudi Arabia, including its government, economy, society, and culture, as well as its role in the Middle East and its position internationally. In this comprehensive introduction to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, author Sherifa Zuhur reveals the fascinating people, culture, politics, and economic development of the largest Arab country of the Middle East. The book provides a detailed summary of Arabian history from the earliest settlements on the Arabian peninsula to the present day, with a focus on the rise of the current Saudi regime. It provides essential background on the oil politics of the Kingdom dating back to the discovery of oil in the late 1930s, an account of Saudi Arabia's subsequent economic advancement, and explanations of emerging societal issues such as labor importation and the changing roles of women. Saudi Arabia also details the Kingdom's cultural and religious milieu, including its music, poetry, architecture, legal system, and prominence in the Islamic world.
