Qibla

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Qibla

Hala Auji

Related Terms:

  • Salah/Salawat (prayers)
  • Astrolabe (astronomical instrument)

Related Khamseen Videos:

Sumru Belger Krody, “Prayer Carpets,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 11 May 2021.

References:

Frishman, Martin and Hasan-Uddin Khan. The Mosque: History, Architectural Development and Regional Diversity. London: Thames & Hudson, 1994. 

King, David A. World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca. Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

Pinto, Karen C. Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 2016.

Wensinck, A.J. and D. A. King. “Ḳibla.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Citation:

Hala Auji, “Qibla,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 5 October 2021.

Hala Auji is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut, where she teaches courses on the art, architecture, and material culture of the Islamic world. Her work focuses on the visual dimensions of modernity in the eastern Mediterranean, including print culture, book history, museum practices, and portraiture. She is the author of Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016). In addition, she has published articles in Platform, Review of Middle East Studies, Visible Language, and The Journal of Middle East Culture and Communication.