We were not ordered with entering it but only with circumambulating it.'Ḥadīthandfiqhon entering the Ka'ba

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ID2809947
AutoresG R Hawting (autor correspondente)
Ano1984
Volume47
Fascículo2
Páginas228-242
Data de publicação1984-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00037290
OpenAlexW2003536438
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas3

Works offiqhoften have chapters or sections concerned with various questions related to the topic of entering the Ka'ba, usually signalled by headings such asFī dukhūl al-Ka'baorAl-ṣalāt fī(jawfi)'l-Ka'ba. In them a number ofḥadīthsare referred to, many of which are to be found in the classical collections and some of which occur as well in 'historical' literature such assīraandta'rīkh. This paper discusses the way in which this material is presented and developed, both infiqhand inḥadīthand 'historical' literature, what sort of questions it is concerned with, and what reasons there may be for its existence. This last question is taken up at the end of the paper but here it may be said that I think that thefiqhandḥadīthmaterial is relevant to an understanding of the development of the Muslim sanctuary and that it illustrates a tension, which is also observable in other traditional material, between two concepts of the sanctuary: is it 'open', comparable to a temple or church, or is it 'closed', like an ark or sacred stone? Both concepts exist within Muslim tradition, and it seems to me likely that the material discussed in the following two sections has been generated, originally, by the tension between them

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