- Title Pages
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
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1 Etic Concepts and Emic Terms -
2 The State of the Art - Introduction
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3 From Karbala to Damascus: A Relic with Multiple Shrines -
4 The Commemoration of al-Husayn in Fatimid Ascalon -
5 Excursus: Donations to Mosques and Shrines -
6 Why Ascalon? Christian Martyrs and Muslim Murābiṭūn (Defenders) -
7 Excursus: Medieval Pilgrimage – Victor Turner’s Input -
8 From Ascalon to Cairo: The Duplication of Sacred Space -
9 Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of Ascalon -
10 The Shrine in Cairo under the Sunni Ayyubids and Mamluks -
11 Excursus: al-Husayn and Saladin in Palestinian Lore -
12 The Shrine in Ascalon under the Ayyubids and Mamluks -
13 Excursus: Ibn Taymiyya on the Veneration of the Head of al-Husayn -
14 Summary - Introduction
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15 Rajab in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in Early Islam -
16 Excursus: The Founding of an Islamic Rajab Under Fatimid RuleLunar Calendar -
17 Rajab under Fatimid Rule -
18 Excursus: Istighfār (Seeking Divine Forgiveness) -
19 Rajab under the Ayyubids and Mamluks -
20 Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of the Sacred Months -
21 Summary - Final Comments: Spacial and Temporal Sanctity
- Works Cited
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.127) Introduction
- Source:
- Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East
- Author(s):
Daniella Talmon-Heller
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
‘The number of months with God is twelve in accordance with God’sdecree on the day he created the heavens and the earth’, declares verse 9: 36 of the Qurʾan, subjugating time to its Lord, and adds: ‘four of them are sacred (ḥurum)’. While Ramadan is explicitly designated in the Qurʾan as the sacred month of the fast and an unspecified sacred month or ‘well-known months’ (Q. 2: 197) as the time of the hajj, the other sacred months remain unnamed....
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- Introduction
-
1 Etic Concepts and Emic Terms -
2 The State of the Art - Introduction
-
3 From Karbala to Damascus: A Relic with Multiple Shrines -
4 The Commemoration of al-Husayn in Fatimid Ascalon -
5 Excursus: Donations to Mosques and Shrines -
6 Why Ascalon? Christian Martyrs and Muslim Murābiṭūn (Defenders) -
7 Excursus: Medieval Pilgrimage – Victor Turner’s Input -
8 From Ascalon to Cairo: The Duplication of Sacred Space -
9 Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of Ascalon -
10 The Shrine in Cairo under the Sunni Ayyubids and Mamluks -
11 Excursus: al-Husayn and Saladin in Palestinian Lore -
12 The Shrine in Ascalon under the Ayyubids and Mamluks -
13 Excursus: Ibn Taymiyya on the Veneration of the Head of al-Husayn -
14 Summary - Introduction
-
15 Rajab in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in Early Islam -
16 Excursus: The Founding of an Islamic Rajab Under Fatimid RuleLunar Calendar -
17 Rajab under Fatimid Rule -
18 Excursus: Istighfār (Seeking Divine Forgiveness) -
19 Rajab under the Ayyubids and Mamluks -
20 Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of the Sacred Months -
21 Summary - Final Comments: Spacial and Temporal Sanctity
- Works Cited
- Index
