In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting highly contested sources. His original research reveals that religious scholars of the early Islamic period produced codes of funerary law not only to define the handling of a Muslim corpse but also to transform everyday urban practices. Relying on oral traditions, these scholars established new social patterns in the cities of Arabia, Mesopotamia, and the eastern Mediterranean. They distinguished Islamic rites from Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian rites and changed the way men and women interacted publicly and privately.

In each chapter Halevi explores a different layer of human interaction, following the movement of the corpse from the deathbed to the grave. In the process he analyzes the real and imaginary relationships between husbands and wives, prayer leaders and mourners, and even dreamers and the dead. He describes how Muslims wailed for the deceased, prepared corpses for burial, marched in funerary processions, and prayed for the dead, highlighting the specific economic and political factors involved in these rituals as well as key religious and sexual divisions.

Offering a unique perspective on the making of Islamic social and religious ideals during this early period, Halevi forges a fascinating link between the development of funerary rites and the efforts of an emerging religion to carve out its own, distinct identity. "Muhammad's Grave" is a groundbreaking history of the rise of Islam and the roots of contemporary Muslim attitudes toward the body and society.

Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually, but it is also a social, political, and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the world's continents. Whatever its outcome--spiritual enrichment, cultural exchange, financial gain or ruin--the road to Mecca has long been an exhilarating human adventure. By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a richly detailed narrative, F. E. Peters here provides an unparalleled literary history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote pre-Islamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926.

La Guia de Oracion del Guerrero Espiritual es ideal para las personas que se encuentran en la busqueda de estrategias para generar cambios en su familia o en su situacion personal. Este libro es una gran fuente de sabiduria y contiene poderosas armas espirituales fundamentadas en las Escrituras, armas para lograr una transformacion a traves de la oracion. En La Guia de Oracion del Guerrero Espiritual aprenderas a aplicar las promesas biblicas en cada area de la vida: enfermedades, problemas economicos, depresion, preocupacion por los seres queridos rebeldes, desempleo, y confusion espiritual. La presente es una version revisada y mejorada de la primera edicion, las autoras Quin Sherrer y Ruthanne Garlock comparten estas oraciones con el fin de liberar a individuos y transformar territorios para la expansion del reino de Dios. Incluye: Oraciones para el guerrero espiritual. Versiculos del Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento. Traduccion por Enrique Chi. Citas Biblicas: la Reina Valera 1960 (RVR1960). The Spiritual Warrior's Prayer Guide The Spiritual Warrior's Prayer Guide is ideal for people who are in search of strategies to generate changes in their family or in their personal situation. This book is a great source of wisdom and contains powerful spiritual weapons grounded in Scripture, weapons to help achieve transformation through prayer. In The Spiritual Warrior's Prayer Guide you will learn to apply biblical promises in every life area: illness, financial problems, depression, concern for unruly loved ones, unemployment, and spiritual confusion. This is a revised and improved version of the first edition, the authors Quin Sherrer and Ruthanne Garlock share these prayers in order to liberate individuals and transform territories for the expansion of the kingdom of God. It includes: ? Prayers for the spiritual warrior. ? Old and New Testament verses. ? Translation by Enrique Chi. ? Scripture quotes: la Reina Valera 1960 (RVR1960).