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Author | : Simon O'Meara |
Publisher | : Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : 9780748699308 |
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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.
Author | : Simon O'Meara |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-07-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0748699317 |
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The most sacred site of Islam, the KaE 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.
Author | : Simon O'Meara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Islamic shrines |
ISBN | : 9781474484695 |
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The most sacred site of Islam, the Kaaba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is investigated here by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects.
Author | : Wallace Collins |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2004-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 059531063X |
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Orientation: A Journey is an autobiographical account of a group of African American tourists who traveled on a tour to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The writer inserts fictional situations in the book to enable the reader to view the bareback narrative in relation to, or as a divergence from the autobiographical portions of the book. As a reality, these segments in the book are its core that lends itself to the fiction he creates, which propels the writer's rush of awareness, and bares his accelerated consciousness, enabling him to carry the fictitious segments of the book on a non-liner, narrative, course.
Author | : Wallace B. Collins |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2004-05-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595758916 |
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Orientation: A Journey is an autobiographical account of a group of African American tourists who traveled on a tour to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The writer inserts fictional situations in the book to enable the reader to view the bareback narrative in relation to, or as a divergence from the autobiographical portions of the book. As a reality, these segments in the book are its core that lends itself to the fiction he creates, which propels the writer's rush of awareness, and bares his accelerated consciousness, enabling him to carry the fictitious segments of the book on a non-liner, narrative, course.
Author | : David King |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 2021-09-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004450734 |
Download World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.
Author | : Josef W. Meri |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415966924 |
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Author | : David A. King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2022-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000585158 |
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This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It continues with discussions of the importance of Islamic instruments and scientific manuscript illustrations. Three studies deal with the regional schools that developed in Islamic astronomy, in this case, Egypt and the Maghrib. Another focuses on a curious astrological table for calculating the length of life of any individual. The notion of the world centred on the sacred Kaaba in Mecca inspired both astronomers and proponents of folk astronomy to propose methods for finding the qibla, or sacred direction towards the Kaaba; their activities are surveyed here. The interaction between the mathematical and folk traditions in astronomy is then illustrated by an 11th-century text on the qibla in Transoxania. The last three studies deal with an account of the geodetic measurements sponsored by the Caliph al-Ma'mûn in the 9th century; a world-map in the tradition of the 11th-century polymath al-Bîrûnî, alas corrupted by careless copying; and a table of geographical coordinates from 15th-century Egypt.
Author | : Abigail Krasner Balbale |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2023-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501765884 |
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The Wolf King explores how political power was conceptualized, constructed, and wielded in twelfth-century al-Andalus, focusing on the eventful reign of Muhammad ibn Sad ibn Ahmad ibn Mardanīsh (r. 1147–1172). Celebrated in Castilian and Latin sources as el rey lobo/rex lupus and denigrated by Almohad and later Arabic sources as irreligious and disloyal to fellow Muslims because he fought the Almohads and served as vassal to the Castilians, Ibn Mardanīsh ruled a kingdom that at its peak constituted nearly half of al-Andalus and served as an important buffer between the Almohads and the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. Through a close examination of contemporary sources across the region, Abigail Krasner Balbale shows that Ibn Mardanīsh's short-lived dynasty was actually an attempt to integrate al-Andalus more closely with the Islamic East—particularly the Abbasid caliphate. At stake in his battles against the Almohads was the very idea of the caliphate in this period, as well as who could define righteous religious authority. The Wolf King makes effective use of chronicles, chancery documents, poetry, architecture, coinage, and artifacts to uncover how Ibn Mardanīsh adapted language and cultural forms from around the Islamic world to assert and consolidate power—and then tracks how these strategies, and the memory of Ibn Mardanīsh more generally, influenced expressions of kingship in subsequent periods.
Author | : Anne Nosiri |
Publisher | : Exceller Books |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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'The Grind' is a blend of true stories and fiction. Set in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, it is the story of three friends; Amaka, Nicole and Seyi who, after the service of their fatherland through the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), hoped to make their dreams come true. But instead the girls face various conflicts and challenges in their different bids to make a success out of their lives.