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Prayer in Islamic thought and practice /

Offers a broad historical survey of the rules, values and interpretations relating to Salat, the five daily prayers of Islam.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Katz, Marion Holmes, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Themes in Islamic history ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Canonical prayer (ṣalat) and supplication (duʻa'): development and rules
  • Ṣalat: conditions and components
  • Supplication: duʻa'
  • Valid prayer and ideal prayer
  • Intent (nīya)
  • Reverence (khushu') and concentration (ḥuḍūr al-qalb)
  • The cultivation of emotion
  • Ethical transformation
  • Interpretive models: what is ṣalat, and what does it do?
  • The model of the royal audience
  • Prayer as communication
  • Ṣalat as an exercise in self-discipline
  • Ṣalat as a reflection of the cosmos
  • Modern developments
  • The community at prayer: congregational prayer, prayer leadership (imama), and the boundaries of the religious community
  • Friday prayers
  • Leadership in prayer (imama)
  • Prayer behind a leader of another legal school
  • Knowledge of prayer and its distribution in the community
  • Failure to pray
  • Modern developments
  • Women and prayer
  • Women's prayer leadership (imama) and placement within the congregation
  • Women's mosque access
  • Knowledge and mastery of prayer.