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The Kaʿba Orientations

Autor Simon O'Meara
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 iun 2020
The most sacred site of Islam, the Kaʿba (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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ISBN-13: 9780748699308
ISBN-10: 0748699309
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 100 B/W illustrations
Dimensiuni: 180 x 254 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Explores the Ka'ba as it has been conceptualised, represented and used by Muslims from the earliest period of Islam onwards.