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Harry Munt (University of Oxford)

The Holy City of Medina

Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia

Harry Munt (University of Oxford)

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English
Cambridge University Press
31 July 2014
Religious buildings; Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the course of the first three Islamic centuries (the seventh to ninth centuries CE). This was a dynamic period that witnessed the evolution of many Islamic political, religious and legal doctrines, and the book situates Medina's emerging sanctity within the appropriate historical contexts. The book focuses on the roles played by the Prophet Muhammad, by the Umayyad and early Abbasid caliphs and by Muslim legal scholars. It shows that Medina's emergence as a holy city, alongside Mecca and Jerusalem, as well as the development of many of the doctrines associated with its sanctity, was the result of gradual and contested processes, and was intimately linked with important contemporary developments concerning the legitimation of political, religious and legal authority in the Islamic world.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 157mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   460g
ISBN:   9781107042131
ISBN 10:   1107042135
Series:   Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Pages:   241
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Harry Munt is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oriental Institute and Wolfson College at the University of Oxford.

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