[PDF.94bm] Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society

Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society

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 | #1695122 in Books |  2011-07-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x1.10 x5.70l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Muhammad's Grave|By Michael Rubin|Western policymakers and academics often concern themselves with death in Islam only in the context of suicide terrorism. But the Islamic treatment of death is far more complicated. Halevi, professor of history at Vanderbilt University, has written a masterful, well-written work filled with original research that shows how Islamic notions of de| |Muhammad's Grave will be warmly welcomed by scholars and students of premodern Islam, including specialists in both history and religion, and will attract the attention of European medievalists and anthropologists as well. The topic is important, the sc

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 scholar...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society   |  Leor Halevi. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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