La découverte d’un culte de nabī Zakariyyāʾ à la grande mosquée de Damas à l’époque ayyoubide
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Abstract: Three unpublished ayyubid letters are presented here. They are addressed to ascetics, fuqarāʾ and ṣūfī, residing in the great mosque of Damascus, and devoted to reading the Qurʾān and praying at the tomb of prophet Zakariyyāʾ. This veneered shrine or ziyāra had been ignored until now, although it was known and it is common knowledge nowadays, that some rituals took place around the location where the head of John the Baptist, known in the lands of Islamic world as Yaḥyā b. Zakariyyāʾ, was kept. Our research seeks to present aspects of the rituals held in the tomb of Zakariyāʾ, arguing that it was initially established with an impetus from Saladin, then thrived under his ayyubid successors, to start dwindling until it was abandoned by the end of the mamluk era.
© De Gruyter 2013
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- Reviews
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- In memoriam Gilles Veinstein (1945–2013)
- Hagar’s Wanderings: Between Judaism and Islam
- Jouir sans enfanter? Concubines, filiation et coït interrompu au debut de l’Islam
- The Geography of the Isnād: Possibilities for the Reconstruction of Local Ritual Practice in the 2nd/8th Century
- Al-Ṭabarī’s Kitāb Marātib al-ʿUlamāʾ and the Significance of Biographical Works Devoted to ‘the Classes of Jurists’
- Abū l-Faraj Hārūn (Jerusalem, 11th c.) on majāz, between uṣūl al-naḥw, uṣūl al-fiqh and iʿjāz al-Qurʾān
- La découverte d’un culte de nabī Zakariyyāʾ à la grande mosquée de Damas à l’époque ayyoubide
- Reviews
