The Kaʿba Orientations (Readings in Islam's Ancient House)
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Product Details
Author:
Simon O'Meara
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
264
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press (July 31, 2025)
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9781399548571
ISBN-10:
1399548573
Dimensions:
6.69" x 9.61"
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United States
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65
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Weight:
12.64oz
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20
Overview
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.
