Dimensions of Locality : Muslim Saints, Their Place and Space (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam No. 8)

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'shr...

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Autores principales: Georg Stauth, Samuli Schielke
Formato: Libro
Publicado: transcript 2008
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