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This volume explores how ideas of the sacred shaped everyday life, belief, and power in the medieval Middle East, and demostrates how sacrality was experienced and contested in texts, cities, rituals, and the experiences of ordinary people of all faiths. Drawing on a number of case studies, it reveals how holiness was continually negotiated, a process performed via political authority, scholarly debate, and popular practice. The sacred emerges as a dynamic force that shaped social relations and historical change, and is illuminated as a way in which communities understood the world and their place within it.
Price: $140.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Islamic History and Civilization
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004779495
Format: Hardcover
Tetsuya Ohtoshi is Professor of Middle Eastern Social History in the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo. He has published monographs and many articles on pre-modern social history and ethnography of the Middle East, including The Egyptian City of the Dead and Visits to Holy Graves: Egyptian Social History of Muslims and Non-Muslims (Tokyo, 2018, in Japanese).
Alexander Mallett is Researcher (Associate Professor) in the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University. He is a historian of pre-modern Christian-Muslim relations, and especially of the history and historiography of the crusades.
Alexander Mallett is Researcher (Associate Professor) in the Research Promotion Division at Waseda University. He is a historian of pre-modern Christian-Muslim relations, and especially of the history and historiography of the crusades.