Muhammadan festivals

By:

"Gruebaum, G.E.Von"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Abelard-Schuman; 1958Description: 107pSubject(s):

Religion

DDC classification:

297.7 GRU

Summary: HERE are -the drama and beauty of Islam's celebrations and ceremonies. The strands of world civilization are brought together so that the reader sees how the pilgrimage to the sanctuary in Mecca is a spiritual form of a pagan Arab spring festival comparable to Passover, how the fast during the month of Ramadan. There are accounts of festivals little known to the non-Muslim, the story for example of the wildly emotional ceremony in which the Shia worships Husain, the Prophet's grandson, as the redeemer and buries him each year after the manner of Tammuz and Adonis. This rite culminates in the public , performance of passion plays-the only native drama ever developed in the Muslim Near East. This is a book which will be welcomed by students of history, anthropology and current affairs as well as of comparative religion. -

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HERE are -the drama and beauty of Islam's celebrations and ceremonies. The strands of world civilization are brought together so that the reader sees how the pilgrimage to the sanctuary in Mecca is a spiritual form of a pagan Arab spring festival comparable to Passover, how the fast during the month of Ramadan.

There are accounts of festivals little known to the non-Muslim, the story for example of the wildly emotional ceremony in which the
Shia worships Husain, the Prophet's grandson, as the redeemer and buries him each year after the manner of Tammuz and Adonis. This rite culminates in the public , performance of passion plays-the only native drama ever developed in the Muslim Near East.

This is a book which will be welcomed by students of history, anthropology and current affairs as well as of comparative religion. -

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