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Al Haytham
Al Jazeera
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anthropological analysis
anthropological study of Islamic time
Arabo Islamic Culture
Author_Fadwa El Guindi
Bayt Al Hikma
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Common Language
comparative calendrical systems
Coptic Calendar
cultural astronomy
Egyptian Calendar
El Guindi
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ethnographic fieldwork
Ibn Al Haytham
Ibn Khaldun
Islamic Months
Islamic temporal cycles
Lunar Calendar
Lunar Cycle
Midday
Muslim Life
Noon Prayer
Qatar University
religious spatiality
rhythmic nature
ritual timekeeping
Roman Calendar
Rural Arab Communities
Sacred Months
Sky Goddess Nut
Solar Year
Vice Versa
visual materials
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781845200978
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical, Egyptological, ethnographic, poetic, scriptural and visual materials. Grounded in long-term observation of Arabo-Islamic culture and society, the study captures the rhythm of Islam weaving through the lives of Muslim women and men.Examples of the rhythmic nature of Islam can be seen in all aspects of Muslims' everyday lives. Muslims break their Ramadan fast upon the sun setting, and they receive Ramadan by sighting the new moon. Prayer for their dead is by noon and burial is before sunset. This is space and time in Islam - moon, sun, dawn and sunset are all part of a unique and unified rhythm, interweaving the sacred and the ordinary, nature and culture in a pattern that is characteristically Islamic.
Fadwa El Guindi is director and research anthropologist at El Nil Research in Los Angeles. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
