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KaE ba Orientations
Simon O'Meara
其他書名
Readings in Islam's Ancient House
出版Edinburgh University Press, 2020-07-06
主題Architecture / GeneralArchitecture / History / GeneralArchitecture / Buildings / ReligiousHistory / Middle East / Arabian PeninsulaReligion / Islam / History
ISBN07486993179780748699315
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d3AxEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The most sacred site of Islam, the KaE ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.