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 Muhammad, 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.-- Introduction; 1. Ḥaram And Ḥimā : Sacred Space In The Pre-islamic Ḥijāz -- 2. Muḥammad And The 'constitution Of Medina': The Declaration Of Medina's Ḥaram -- 3. Debating Sanctity: The Validity Of Medina's Ḥaram -- 4. The Construction Of A Sacred Topography -- 5. Following In The Prophet's Footsteps, Visiting His Grave: Early Islamic Pilgrimage To Medina -- 6. The Prophet's Inheritance: Medina's Emergence As A Holy City In The First-third/seventh-ninth Centuries -- Conclusion: From Yathrib To The Prophet’s City. Harry Munt. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 191-215) And Index.

T. H. R Munt

Munt, Harry

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization, First paperback edition, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2017

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization, Cambridge, 2014

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization, New York, 2014

Cambridge University Press, New York, 2014

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Feb 01, 2018

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Source title: The Holy City of Medina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as an Islamic holy city, with a particular focus on the first three Islamic centuries (the seventh to ninth centuries CE).

"This book examines the emergence of Medina as a holy city, focusing on the historical developments of the first three Islamic centuries"-- Provided by publisher