This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the
medieval Middle East. It investigates how Muslims thought about and
practised at sacred spaces and in sacred times through two detailed
case studies: the shrines in honour of the head of al-Husayn (the
martyred grandson of the Prophet); and the (arguably) holy month of
Rajab. Author Daniella Talmon-Heller explores the diverse
expressions of the veneration of the shrine and the month from the
formative period of Islam until the late Mamluk period. She pays
particular attention to changing political and sectarian
affiliations and to the development of new genres of religious
literature. And she juxtaposes the sanctification of space and time
in individual and communal Sunni, Ithna'ashari and Isma'ili piety.
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