Stilt Talar
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199602438
- eISBN:
- 9780191729348
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602438.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter examines the actions of the muhtasib in the areas of Muslim devotional and pious practices. In the first case, the muhtasib assigned jurists to the markets of Cairo to teach merchants ...
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This chapter examines the actions of the muhtasib in the areas of Muslim devotional and pious practices. In the first case, the muhtasib assigned jurists to the markets of Cairo to teach merchants the basic verses from the Quran that they would need for prayer. In the second case, the muhtasib added language to the end of the call to prayer. In the third case, the muhtasib acted to prevent a preacher from discussing the attributes of God. In the fourth case, in the middle of a plague ravaging Egypt, the muhtasib enforced the sultan’s decision to require residents of Cairo to fast and then participate in a large scale prayer for plague relief.Less
This chapter examines the actions of the muhtasib in the areas of Muslim devotional and pious practices. In the first case, the muhtasib assigned jurists to the markets of Cairo to teach merchants the basic verses from the Quran that they would need for prayer. In the second case, the muhtasib added language to the end of the call to prayer. In the third case, the muhtasib acted to prevent a preacher from discussing the attributes of God. In the fourth case, in the middle of a plague ravaging Egypt, the muhtasib enforced the sultan’s decision to require residents of Cairo to fast and then participate in a large scale prayer for plague relief.
Jonathan M. Bloom
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748637256
- eISBN:
- 9780748693832
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637256.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Tracing its origins and development, this book reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to ...
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Tracing its origins and development, this book reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. Drawing on buildings, archaeological reports, medieval histories, geographies, and early Arabic poetry, it reinterprets the origin, development, and meanings of the minaret. From early Islam to the modern world, and from Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and India to West and East Africa, the Yemen, and Southeast Asia, the book is a sweeping tour of the minaret's position as the symbol of Islam.Less
Tracing its origins and development, this book reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. Drawing on buildings, archaeological reports, medieval histories, geographies, and early Arabic poetry, it reinterprets the origin, development, and meanings of the minaret. From early Islam to the modern world, and from Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and India to West and East Africa, the Yemen, and Southeast Asia, the book is a sweeping tour of the minaret's position as the symbol of Islam.
Jonathan M. Bloom
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748637256
- eISBN:
- 9780748693832
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637256.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter examines the purported function of the minaret – namely, the call to prayer – and the places where that function was performed in early Islamic times. The call to prayer was initially ...
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This chapter examines the purported function of the minaret – namely, the call to prayer – and the places where that function was performed in early Islamic times. The call to prayer was initially given from the doorway or on the roof of the mosque, and later sometimes a small shelter on the roof of the mosque built to protect the muezzin and reached by a ladder or staircase. The construction and use of such shelters continued well into the twentieth century in isolated areas of the Muslim world, where they were known as ‘staircase minarets’.Less
This chapter examines the purported function of the minaret – namely, the call to prayer – and the places where that function was performed in early Islamic times. The call to prayer was initially given from the doorway or on the roof of the mosque, and later sometimes a small shelter on the roof of the mosque built to protect the muezzin and reached by a ladder or staircase. The construction and use of such shelters continued well into the twentieth century in isolated areas of the Muslim world, where they were known as ‘staircase minarets’.
