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The Holy City of Medina - Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia (Paperback)
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The Holy City of Medina - Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in
modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy
city over the course of the first three Islamic centuries (the
seventh to ninth centuries CE). This was a dynamic period that
witnessed the evolution of many Islamic political, religious and
legal doctrines, and the book situates Medina's emerging sanctity
within the appropriate historical contexts. The book focuses on the
roles played by the Prophet Mu ammad, by the Umayyad and early
Abbasid caliphs and by Muslim legal scholars. It shows that
Medina's emergence as a holy city, alongside Mecca and Jerusalem,
as well as the development of many of the doctrines associated with
its sanctity, was the result of gradual and contested processes and
was intimately linked with important contemporary developments
concerning the legitimation of political, religious and legal
authority in the Islamic world."
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