By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam

ISBN-13: 9781845200978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 220 str.

Fadwa El Guindi

Opis

A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while traveling along a comparative path of biblical, Egyptological, ethnographic, poetic, scriptural, and visual materials. Grounded in long-term observation of Arabo-Islamic culture and society, this study captures the rhythm of Islam weaving through the lives of Muslim women and men.Examples of the rhythmic nature of Islam can be seen in all aspects of Muslims' everyday lives. Muslims break their Ramadan fast upon the sun setting, and they receive Ramadan by sighting the new moon. Prayer for their dead is by noon and burial is before sunset. This is space and time in Islam--moon, sun, dawn and sunset are all part of a unique and unified rhythm, interweaving the sacred and the ordinary, nature and culture in a pattern that is characteristically Islamic.

Spis treści

Part One: SPATIALITY AND TEMPORALITY1. Conceptual Overview 2. The Anthropology Of Time And SpacePart Two: COSMOS AND CALENDAR3. Order and Creative Beginning 4. Science, Religion and Business of TemporalityPart Three: ARABO-ISLAMIC ECOLOGY OF RHYTHM5. Marking Time, Carving Space6. Khususiyya, Qudsiyya, Jama'iyya: A Theory of Arabo-Islamic RhythmConclusion

O autorze

Fadwa El Guindi is director and research anthropologist at El Nil Research in Los Angeles. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar.