Islam through Objects
Islam through Objects Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. These narratives will engage the reader by describing and analyzing each object in…
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Islam through Objects
Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. These narratives will engage the reader by describing and analyzing each object in terms of its provenance, materials, uses, and history, as well as the broader history, variety and uses of the object in Islamic history and cultures. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic materiality to debunk myths of Islamic aversion to material aspects of religion.Each chapter focuses on a single object in daily use by Muslims-prayer beads, coins, amulets, a cistern well, clothing, jewellery, bodily and domestic adornments-to consider both generic and particular aspects of the object in question.
Temporal, regional, and sectarian