Adam Bursi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1609844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Bursi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Bursi |
| SIGNATURE | BURSI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7241-5593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Pattern of God’s Throne
This article suggests that the idea of the Kaʿba as a piece of Paradise on earth was a significant lens through which early Muslims understood this holy site. It highlights evidence that associations between the Kaʿba and Paradise were made already in the early Islamic period, likely going back to the early 2nd/8th century. The dating suggests a particular religio-political environment within which such ideas about the Kaʿba circulated: debates a…
Columns of Scent. Perfumed Signs of the Prophet in Early Islamic Spaces
Examining ritual uses of scent in early Islamic sacred spaces, this article highlights the olfactory aspects of a set of columns and stones in Mecca and Medina that commemorated places where the Prophet Muḥammad was said to have performed ritual prayer. Several such locations of the Prophet’s prayers became memorialized sites of visitation and ritualization over the course of the seventh to ninth centuries ce. At a number of these sites, perfume …
“You were not commanded to stroke it, but to pray nearby it”
Early Islamic texts record a series of ongoing debates about a fundamental component of ritual performance: the act of touch. During the hajj, Muslim pilgrims participated in intensively haptic devotional activity in the holy city of Mecca, where they thronged to grasp objects and places associated with Islamic history and worship. Such rituals were carried out, and approved of, by many early Muslims, who considered these as important acts in the…
Fluid Boundaries
This article examines a ḥadīth text that illustrates the complicated interactions between Christian and Islamic sacred spaces in the early period of Islamic rule in the Near East. In this narrative, the Prophet Muḥammad gives a group of Arabs instructions for how to convert a church into a mosque, telling them to use his ablution water for cleansing and repurposing the Christian space for Muslim worship. Contextualizing this narrative in terms of…
Scents of Space
Within some of the earliest textual and material evidence for the history of Islam, pilgrimage appears as an important ritual of devotion, identity, and community. Yet modern scholarship has given little attention to early Muslims’ sensory experiences of pilgrimage sites and what they physically encountered while there. This article examines the importance of smell within Islamic pilgrimage practices of the first/seventh and second/eighth centuri…
Fluid Boundaries
This article examines a ḥadīth text that illustrates the complicated interactions between Christian and Islamic sacred spaces in the early period of Islamic rule in the Near East. In this narrative, the Prophet Muḥammad gives a group of Arabs instructions for how to convert a church into a mosque, telling them to use his ablution water for cleansing and repurposing the Christian space for Muslim worship. Contextualizing this narrative in terms of…
Scents of Space
Within some of the earliest textual and material evidence for the history of Islam, pilgrimage appears as an important ritual of devotion, identity, and community. Yet modern scholarship has given little attention to early Muslims’ sensory experiences of pilgrimage sites and what they physically encountered while there. This article examines the importance of smell within Islamic pilgrimage practices of the first/seventh and second/eighth centuri…
Fluid Boundaries
This article examines a ḥadīth text that illustrates the complicated interactions between Christian and Islamic sacred spaces in the early period of Islamic rule in the Near East. In this narrative, the Prophet Muḥammad gives a group of Arabs instructions for how to convert a church into a mosque, telling them to use his ablution water for cleansing and repurposing the Christian space for Muslim worship. Contextualizing this narrative in terms of…
“You were not commanded to stroke it, but to pray nearby it”
Early Islamic texts record a series of ongoing debates about a fundamental component of ritual performance: the act of touch. During the hajj, Muslim pilgrims participated in intensively haptic devotional activity in the holy city of Mecca, where they thronged to grasp objects and places associated with Islamic history and worship. Such rituals were carried out, and approved of, by many early Muslims, who considered these as important acts in the…
Columns of Scent. Perfumed Signs of the Prophet in Early Islamic Spaces
Examining ritual uses of scent in early Islamic sacred spaces, this article highlights the olfactory aspects of a set of columns and stones in Mecca and Medina that commemorated places where the Prophet Muḥammad was said to have performed ritual prayer. Several such locations of the Prophet’s prayers became memorialized sites of visitation and ritualization over the course of the seventh to ninth centuries ce. At a number of these sites, perfume …
On the Pattern of God’s Throne
This article suggests that the idea of the Kaʿba as a piece of Paradise on earth was a significant lens through which early Muslims understood this holy site. It highlights evidence that associations between the Kaʿba and Paradise were made already in the early Islamic period, likely going back to the early 2nd/8th century. The dating suggests a particular religio-political environment within which such ideas about the Kaʿba circulated: debates a…
Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works)