عنوان

Dear Prophet: The tradition of sending letters to Muhammad and the making of the Maghribī prophet

Number

TL49110

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Dear Prophet: The tradition of sending letters to Muhammad and the making of the Maghribī prophet

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Hassan Lachheb

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Jaques, Kevin R.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Indiana University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

526

Text of Note

Committee members: Afsaruddin, Asma; Stalnaker, Aaron D.; Walbridge, John

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-37502-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Religious Studies

Body granting the degree

Indiana University

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

Few studies have investigated the elements that served in constructing particular images of Muhammad, and the role of these images in the formation of the religious identity of the Muslims of the Maghrib and Andalus. Although there are dozens of inroads to this subject, this project explores a tradition unique to the Maghrib and Andalus where Muslims sent beautifully ornate letters with pilgrims to be read at Muhammad's graveside wherein they addressed him as a living person who has an omnipotent cosmic role, and where he is sought to intercede in the problems of the senders' daily communal and individual lives. This practice lasted from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries and was performed across society by those such as kings, notables, laymen, and scholars who represented orthodoxy in many of its hegemonic aspects.

Religion; Islamic Studies; Near Eastern Studies

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Andalus;Islamic devotional literature;Islamic prophetology;Maghreb;Prophet Mohammad

Abdul Aziz, Azlina

Jaques, Kevin R.

Subdivision

Religious Studies

Indiana University

Call Number

1855158377; 10196546

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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