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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 June 2020
      28 May 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108594233
      9781108483841
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108594233
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 278 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, Religion
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    In this book, Richard J. A. McGregor offers a history of Islamic practice through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects. Elaborate parades in Cairo and Damascus included decorated objects of great value, destined for Mecca and Medina. Among these were the precious dress sewn yearly for the Ka'ba, and large colorful sedans mounted on camels, which mysteriously completed the Hajj without carrying a single passenger. Along with the brisk trade in Islamic relics, these objects and the variety of contested meanings attached to them, constituted material practices of religion that persisted into the colonial era, but were suppressed in the twentieth century. McGregor here recovers the biographies of religious objects, including relics, banners, public texts, and coverings for the Ka'ba. Reconstructing the premodern visual culture of Islamic Egypt and Syria, he follows the shifting meanings attached to objects of devotion, as well as the contingent nature of religious practice and experience.

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