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The Kaba Orientations : Readings in Islam's Ancient House - Simon O'Meara

The Kaba Orientations

Readings in Islam's Ancient House

By: Simon O'Meara

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The most sacred site of Islam, the Kaba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.

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