{"product_id":"placing-islam-by-timur-warner-hammond-9780520387430","title":"Placing Islam","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.luminosoa.org\"\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/a\u003e to learn more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried in the tomb at its center: Halid bin Zeyd Ebû Eyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. In this book, however, Timur Hammond argues that making a geography of Islam involves considerably more than this figure alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTracing practices of storytelling and building projects from the final years of the Ottoman Empire to the early 2010s, \u003ci\u003ePlacing Islam\u003c\/i\u003e shows how different individuals and groups articulated connections between people, places, traditions, and histories to make a place that is paradoxically defined both by powerful continuities and a radically reconfigured relationship to the city and world beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a rich account of urban religion in Istanbul, offering a key opportunity to reconsider how we understand the changing cultures of Islam in contemporary Turkey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464158822636,"sku":"9780520387430","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520387430-placing-islam.jpg?v=1775038721","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/placing-islam-by-timur-warner-hammond-9780520387430","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}