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The Mosque: The Heart of Submission (Abrahamic Dialogues) by Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, William Chittick is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Mosque is an extended meditation on a dimension of Islam unfamiliar to most Western readers. The mosque, Rusmir Mahmut?cehaji?c argues, is not an analogue of the Christian church, not least because in Islam there is no priesthood and no institutionalized hierarchy. Rather, every Muslim is his or her own priest, andmost religious obligations are performed in the home. The function of the mosque is thus dispersed throughout society and, indeed, throughout the natural world as well. The Arabic word from which English mosque derives means literally place of prostration-the place one performs the daily ritual prayer of submission to God, so as to become a guest at the table God has sent down to manifest himself. That table is also the world's mosque, the world as mosque. Among the many tragic victims of the Bosnian genocide are its mosques; more than a thousand were destroyed. A part of the essential fabric of Bosnian life was changed. With this book, Rusmir Mahmut?cehaji?c seeks to rebuild the spirit and majesty of each mosque that was destroyed, the spiritual grace it lent the Bosnian landscape.Beautifully composed, elegantly written and constructed, this is a primary text of Isla

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Author

Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, William Chittick

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429478946

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Nature, Islam