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The Kaaba Orientations - Readings in Islam's Ancient House (Hardcover): Simon O'Meara

The Kaaba Orientations - Readings in Islam's Ancient House (Hardcover)

Simon O'Meara

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art

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What is the Ka'ba and why it is pivotal to the Islamic world? Why do pilgrims go about it, not in it? Is it empty? And why is a hollow building covered in black silk? The most sacred site of Islam, the Ka'ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.

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Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Release date: June 2020
Authors: Simon O'Meara
Dimensions: 244 x 172 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-9930-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Religious buildings
LSN: 0-7486-9930-9
Barcode: 9780748699308

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