Between Jerusalem and Mecca: Sanctity and Redemption in the Qurʾān and the Islamic Tradition 9783111222318, 9783111220079

Between Jerusalem and Mecca: Sanctity and Redemption in the Qurʾān and the Islamic Tradition 9783111222318, 9783111220079

This book sheds new light on Jerusalem's status in early Islam. The sanctity of the city is already discerned in th

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Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780191093142, 9780198746676, 0191093149

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Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Modernity

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Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198746676, 0198746679

How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? How can a culture in

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Sanity and Sanctity: Mental Health Work Among the Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem 9780300131994

Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are isolated from the secular community that surrounds them not only physically but by

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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition 9783110776485, 9783110776034

Open Access This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technolog

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The Islamic syncretistic tradition in Bengal 0691053871

Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the "real" Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-ce

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The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia 9780700703142

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Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition: Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam 9780755694471, 9781780765617

What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has histo

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Islamic Divorces in Europe : Bridging the Gap between European and Islamic Legal Orders 9789462741928, 9789462365018

This book examines the issue of the recognition of Islamic divorces in European states. Repudiation-based divorces are p

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