The Development of Islamic Ritual

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This volume is concerned with the origins, development and character of ritual in Islam. The focus is upon the rituals associated with the five 'pillars of Islam': the credal formula, prayer, alms, fasting and pilgrimage. Since the 19th century academic scholarship has sought to investigate Muslim rituals from the point of view of history, the study of religion, and the social sciences, and a set of the most important and influential contributions to this debate, some of them translated into English for the first time, is brought together here. Participation in the ritual life of Islam is for most Muslims the predominant expression of their adherence to the faith and of their religious identity. The Development of Islamic Ritual shows some of the ways in which this important aspect of Islam developed to maturity in the first centuries of Islamic history. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements General Editor's Preface Introduction The Credal Formula 1. On the Pre-history of the Credal Formula "There is no God but God" 2. On the Genesis and Development of the Twelver-Shī'ī Three-tenet Shahādah Prayer 3. The Sabbath Institution in Islam 4. On the History of Muslim Worship 5. The Origin of the Muslim Laws of Ritual Purity 6. The Development of the Adhān and Iqāma of the Ṣalāt in Early Islam 7. Morning and Evening Prayers in Early Islam Fasting 8. Fasting in Islam and Judaism 9. Ramadan, the Muslim Month of Fasting 10. The Tawwābūn, Atonement and 'Āshūrā' Alms 11. On the Institution of Zakāt 12. Charity and Social Service in Medieval Islam 13. Zakāt in Imāmī Shī'ī Jurisprudence, from the Tenth to the Sixteenth century A.D. Pilgrimage 14. The Meccan Feast 15. The Religious Dialectics of the Ḥadjdj General Considerations 16. Islamic Duties in History 17. Muslim Festivals 18. The Flagellations of Muḥarram and the Shi'ite 'Ulamā' 19. Islam in the Mirror of Ritual General Index