This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the
medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought
about and practiced 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 holy
month of Rajab. The changing expressions of the veneration of the
shrine and month are followed from the formative period of Islam
until the late Mamluk period, paying attention to historical
contexts and power relations. Readers will find interest in the
attempt to integrate the two perspectives synchronically and
diachronically, in a discussion of the relationship between the
sanctification of space and time in individual and communal piety,
and in the religious literature of the period.
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