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The Dome of the Rock
The Dome of the Rock was built in 692 C.E. under the patronage of the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. It enshrines the Sacred Rock, literally the irregular highest tip of Mount Moriah, one of the several ridges around which the city of…
Ibn al-ʻArabī's Barzakh: The Concept of the Limit and the Relationship Between God and the World
"This book explores how Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) used the concept of barzakh (the limit) to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world, a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term…
Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: an Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas
"This interdisciplinary study reveals connections between architecture, cosmology, and mysticism. Samer Akkach demonstrates how space ordering in premodern Islamic architecture reflects the transcendental and the sublime. The book features many new…
Symbols of the Kabbalah: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Cabala -- Terminology