The Ka?Ba Orientations : Readings in Islam's Ancient House
Book Details
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Delivery in 14 days
The most sacred site of Islam, the Ka?ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.
Get The Ka?Ba Orientations by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Edinburgh University Press and it has pages.
