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Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam
Brannon Wheeler
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| #2751353 in Books | 2006-07-01 | 2006-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,1.03 | File type: PDF | 288 pages|||"Mecca and Eden is absorbing from the first paragraph of the introduction to the final footnote in the concluding chapter. It is a completely original work of scholarship and an exceptionally good comparative study." - Richard D. Hecht, University of Californi
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 sh...
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