{"product_id":"traces-of-the-prophets-adam-bursi-9781399522328","title":"Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam","description":"\u003cp\u003eContributing to scholarship studying Islam alongside other late antique religions, \u003ci\u003eTraces of the Prophets\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTraces of the Prophets\u003c\/em\u003e rewrites the history of holy bodies and sacred spaces in the emergence of Islam. Rather than focusing on theological controversies among early Muslims, this book is grounded in the material objects and places that Muslims touched and \"thought with\" in defining Islamic practice and belief. While often marginalized in modern scholarship, sacred relics and spaces stood at the disputed boundaries of emergent Islamic identities. Objects and spaces like Abraham's footprints in Mecca and Muhammad's tomb in Medina provided sites of shared Islamic ritual, as well as tools for differentiating Muslims from non-Muslims.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Bursi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399522329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399522328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Adam Bursi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44717818904831,"sku":"9781399522328","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_37e08e88-ab8a-4e0b-b04e-b91b10cd9063.jpg?v=1705689531","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/traces-of-the-prophets-adam-bursi-9781399522328","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}