Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East

Explores the construction of sanctity and its manifestations in the medieval Muslim Middle East Draws on a wide variety of primary sources from many genres: narrative and documentary sources, travelogues, epigraphic and material evidence, legal, devotional and prescriptive religious literatureDeals with the perspectives of Sunnis, Shi`is of the Ithna`ashariyya and Isma`ilis, which are rarely treated simultaneously in researchThe ‘long durée’ treatment of religious phenomena offers a wide perspec