A.J. Wensinck
Ahl Al Bayt
Ancient Islam
anti-Jewish Polemics
Arabia
Arabic Language
C. Snouck Hurgronje
C.H. Becker
Cairo Geniza Documents
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comparative religion
Credal Formula
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Festival Prayer
Fiqh Books
Fourth Century Ad
Friday Service
G.R. Hawting
Georges Vajda
God's Absolute Unity
God’s Absolute Unity
Golden Calf
Hava Lazarus-Yafeh
historical anthropology
Holy Month
I.K.A. Howard
Ibn Jubayr
Ibn Jurayj
Ignaz Goldziher
Islamic law
Jewish Day
Joseph Eliash
Mecca Sanctuaries
Meccan Suras
Minimum Property Qualification
Muslim Polemic
Muslim Theologians
Muslim World
Norman A. Stillman
Norman Calder
origins of Islamic worship
Prophet's Position
Prophet’s Position
religious identity
ritual practice
Rudolf Macuch
S.D. Goitein
Shi'i jurisprudence
Snouck Hurgronje
Ulrich Haarmann
Uri Rubin
Werner Ende
William A. Graham
Product details
- ISBN 9780860787129
- Weight: 940g
- Dimensions: 169 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume is concerned with the origins, development and character of ritual in Islam. The focus is upon the rituals associated with the five 'pillars of Islam': the credal formula, prayer, alms, fasting and pilgrimage. Since the 19th century academic scholarship has sought to investigate Muslim rituals from the point of view of history, the study of religion, and the social sciences, and a set of the most important and influential contributions to this debate, some of them translated into English for the first time, is brought together here. Participation in the ritual life of Islam is for most Muslims the predominant expression of their adherence to the faith and of their religious identity. The Development of Islamic Ritual shows some of the ways in which this important aspect of Islam developed to maturity in the first centuries of Islamic history.
Gerald Hawting is Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East at SOAS, London, UK.
