Haram

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Haram

Harry Munt

Related Terms:

  • Ihram (state of ritual purity during the hajj)
  • Kaʿba (black cuboid sacred structure in the city of Mecca)

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References:

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Grabar, Oleg. The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Munt, Harry. The Holy City of Medina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Peters, Francis E. Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Porter, Venetia, and Liana Saif, eds. The Hajj: Collected Essays. London: The British Museum Press, 2013.

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Harry Munt, “Haram,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 7 December 2021.

Harry Munt is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York. His interests include Islamic ideas about pilgrimage and sacred places and the history of the Arabian Peninsula as well as early Islamic history and history-writing more broadly. He is the author of several articles on these topics as well as the monograph The Holy City of Medina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia (Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, 2014).