Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam by Brannon M. Wheeler
Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam

Brannon M. Wheeler

Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam

Brannon M. Wheeler

333 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction history religion
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Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature but from their social character. Building upon this insight, Mecca and Eden...

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