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Islam and the Devotional Object - Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria (Hardcover)
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Islam and the Devotional Object - Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria (Hardcover)
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In this book, Richard J. A. McGregor offers a history of Islamic
practice through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious
objects. Elaborate parades in Cairo and Damascus included decorated
objects of great value, destined for Mecca and Medina. Among these
were the precious dress sewn yearly for the Ka'ba, and large
colorful sedans mounted on camels, which mysteriously completed the
Hajj without carrying a single passenger. Along with the brisk
trade in Islamic relics, these objects and the variety of contested
meanings attached to them, constituted material practices of
religion that persisted into the colonial era, but were suppressed
in the twentieth century. McGregor here recovers the biographies of
religious objects, including relics, banners, public texts, and
coverings for the Ka'ba. Reconstructing the premodern visual
culture of Islamic Egypt and Syria, he follows the shifting
meanings attached to objects of devotion, as well as the contingent
nature of religious practice and experience.
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