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The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria: Oxford Oriental Monographs

Josef W.Josef W. Meri
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 noi 2002
This accessible study is the first critical investigation of the cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments, examination of devotional objects, and analysis of ideas of 'holiness', Meri depicts the practices of living religion and explores the common heritage of all three monotheistic faiths. Critical readings of a wide range of contemporary sources - travel writing, geographical works, pilgrimage guides, legal writings, historical sources, hagiography, and biography - reveal a vibrant religious culture in which the veneration of saints and pilgrimage to tombs and shrines were fundamental.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199250783
ISBN-10: 0199250782
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: halftones and 1 map
Dimensiuni: 143 x 223 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Oriental Monographs

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

This is a book of scholarly value that should prove important as a source for the more specialized study of individual cults and their sites. It is also distinctly thought-provoking and thus takes a worthy place in the ongoing study of the theological and sociological interrelationships of Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle East.
[Meri] examines aspects of the cult of saints with impeccable objectivity and admirable clarity, employing to the full his impressive mastery of the primary sources, in Arabic, Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic ... his meticulous attention to detail is one of the strongest features of this work in academic terms.
a model of scholarship
Meri has written a fascinating volume which deserves to be consulted by all specialists in Islamic Studies and which, because of its careful structure and lucidity, will appeal to a much wider audience as well.
a richly descriptive...valuable [and] fine monograph

Notă biografică

Josef Meri holds the doctorate from the University of Oxford (Wolfson College) and is a specialist in the social and cultural history of the medieval Islamic world and interfaith relations and is an historian of ideas. He is presently at work on a book entitled Sacred Landscapes of the Medieval Islamic World and is serving as General Editor of the forthcoming Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia.