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The Kaaba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House by Simon O'Meara (Hardcover, 2020)
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What is the Ka'ba and why it is pivotal to the Islamic world? Why do pilgrims go about it, not in it? Is it empty? And why is a hollow building covered in black silk? The most sacred site of Islam, the Ka'ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.
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What is the Ka'ba and why it is pivotal to the Islamic world? Why do pilgrims go about it, not in it? Is it empty? And why is a hollow building covered in black silk? The most sacred site of Islam, the Ka'ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.Product Identifiers
PublisherEdinburgh University Press
ISBN-139780748699308
eBay Product ID (ePID)17046700954
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Book TitleThe Kaaba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House
AuthorSimon O'meara
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
Number of Pages320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height244mm
Item Width172mm
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Title_AuthorSimon O'meara
Series TitleEdinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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