Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam - Hardcover
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Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam
Contributing to scholarship studying Islam alongside other late antique religions, Traces of the Prophets highlights how early Muslims deployed sacred objects and spaces to inscribe and dispute Islam's continuities with, and differences from, Judaism and Christianity. The book argues that prophets' relics ritually and rhetorically shaped Muslim identities in the first centuries of Islam.
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Adam Bursi is an editorial assistant at Fortress Press. He received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Cornell University, and has held research and teaching positions at the University of Tennessee, the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, and Utrecht University. He coedited the collection 'His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror' Andalusi, Judaeo-Arabic, and Other Near Eastern Studies in Honor...
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