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This collection of seven essays offers wide-ranging and in-depth studies of locations sacred to Muslims, of the histories of these sites (real or imagined), and of the ways in which Muslims and members of other religions have interacted peaceably in sacred times and spaces. The volume begins with a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cormack, Margaret (Margaret Jean)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:Religion, culture, and history series.
Subjects:
Islam > Relations.
Islamic shrines.
Sacred space.
Sanctuaires musulmans.
Lieux sacrés.
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islamic shrines
Sacred space
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Islam.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Christentum
Heiligenverehrung
Heiligtum
Nutzung
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Peter Gottschalk
  • Baraka Besieged: Islamism, neofundamentalism and shared sacred space in South Asia / David Damrel
  • Boundaries and baraka: Christians, Muslims, and a Palestinian saint / Lance D. Laird
  • Christmas in Cambérène, or how Muhammad begets Jesus in Senegal / Eric Ross
  • Environmental disasters and political cominance in shared festivals and intercessions among medieval Muslims, Christians and Jews / Alexandra Cuffel
  • Khidr and the politics of place: creating landscapes of continuity / Ethel Sara Wolper
  • Foundational legends, shrines, and Isma'ili identity in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan / Jo-Ann Gross
  • Monks and their daughters: monasteries as Muslim-Christian boundaries /
  • Thomas Sizgorich.