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1) Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 7)
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
The articles included in this Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam are focused on two perspectives: Some link the comparative analysis of Islam to ongoing debates on the Axial Age and its role in the formation of major civilizational complexes, while others are more concerned with the historical constellations and sources involved in the formation of Islam as a religion and a civilization.More than any other particular line of inquiry, new historical...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a seemingly contradictory fashion - at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' shrines around the world. Sacred locality has thus become a paradigm for the relationship between the human and the transcendent, a model for urban planning,...