Author: Simon O'Meara
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748699317
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The most sacred site of Islam, the KaE ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.
KaE ba Orientations
Author: Simon O'Meara
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748699317
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The most sacred site of Islam, the KaE ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748699317
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The most sacred site of Islam, the KaE ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.
Remaining Karen
Author: Ananda Rajah
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192153611X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This publication of REMAINING KAREN is intended as a tribute to Ananda Raja and his consummate skills as an ethnographer. It is also a tribute to his long-term engagement in the study of the Karen. REMAINING KAREN was Ananda Raja's first focused study of the Sgaw Karen of Palokhi in northern Thailand, which he submitted in 1986 for this PhD in the Department of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. It is a work of superlative ethnography set in an historical and regional context and as such retains its value to the present.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192153611X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This publication of REMAINING KAREN is intended as a tribute to Ananda Raja and his consummate skills as an ethnographer. It is also a tribute to his long-term engagement in the study of the Karen. REMAINING KAREN was Ananda Raja's first focused study of the Sgaw Karen of Palokhi in northern Thailand, which he submitted in 1986 for this PhD in the Department of Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. It is a work of superlative ethnography set in an historical and regional context and as such retains its value to the present.
Who's who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges
Author: Henry Pettus Randall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Students
Languages : en
Pages : 1704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Students
Languages : en
Pages : 1704
Book Description
African Economic Development, 1979-January 1988
Author: Mary E. Lassanyi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Quick Bibliography Series
Quick Bibliography Series
Rural America's Elderly, 1979-April 1988 : 130 Citations
Author: Robert E. Bray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural aged
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural aged
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Agricultural and Farmer Cooperatives, 1979-April 1988
Author: Patricia La Caille John
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural cooperative credit associations
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural cooperative credit associations
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
International Rural Youth Issues
Author: Louise Reynnells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural youth
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural youth
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Weekly Parliamentary Debates
Author: Botswana. National Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botswana
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botswana
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description