Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam

Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker offers a groundbreaking study of how the qibla-Islam's ritual direction of prayer-served not only as a sacred practice but also as a powerful marker of communal identity in Islam's formative centuries.Situating the qibla within the wider ritual culture of Late Antiquity, this book examines how ...