The Mosque: The Heart of Submission
The Mosque is an extended meditation on a dimension of Islam unfamiliar to most Western readers. The mosque, Rusmir Mahmutć ehajić argues, is not an analogue of the Christian church, not least because in Islam there is no priesthood and no institutionalized hierarchy. Rather, every Muslim is his or her own priest, and most religious obligations are performed in the home. The function of the mosque is thus dispersed throughout society and, indeed, throughout the natural world as well. The Arabic word from which English mosque derives means literally place of prostration--the place one performs the daily ritual prayer of s…
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Weitere Autoren: Chittick, William C. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2584-2
- EAN: 9780823225842
- Produktnummer: 2071439
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 100 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.5 cm 272 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 3
- Gewicht: 272
Über den Autor
RUSMIR MAHMUTC ' EHAJIC' is Professor of Applied Physics at Sarajevo University, President of the International Forum Bosnia, and former Vice President of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The most recentof his books in English are The Mosque: The Heart of Submission and On Love: In the Muslim Tradition (both Fordham).
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