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Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature but from their social character. Building upon this insight, 'Mecca and Eden 'uses Islamic exegetical and legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with the sanctuary at Mecca. Integrating Islamic examples into the comparative study of religion, Brannon Wheeler shows how the treatment of rituals, relics, and territory is related to the more general mythological depiction of the origins of Islamic civilization. Along the way, Wheeler considers the contrast between Mecca and Eden in Muslim rituals, the dispersal and collection of relics of the prophet Muhammad, their relationship to the sanctuary at Mecca, and long tombs associated with the gigantic size of certain prophets mentioned in the Quran. 'Mecca and Eden' succeeds, as few books have done, in making Islamic sources available to the broader study of religion.

Islam --- Islamic civilization --- Civilisation islamique --- Rituals. --- Rituel --- Mecca (Saudi Arabia) --- La Mecque (Arabie Saoudite) --- Description and travel --- Descriptions et voyages --- Civilization, Islamic. --- Islamic civilization. --- Islamic reliquaries. --- Reliquaries, Islamic.

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Islamic law --- Hanafites --- Authority --- Law, Politics & Government --- Canon Law --- Hanafis --- Islamic sects --- Political science --- Authoritarianism --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Uṣūl al-fiqh (Islamic law) --- Authority (Islam) --- Consensus (Islam) --- Ijmāʻ (Islam) --- Interpretation and construction. --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Interpretation and construction --- History --- Islam --- Uṣūl al-Fiqh

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Islam is the only biblical religion that still practices animal sacrifice. Indeed, every year more than a million animals are shipped to Mecca from all over the world to be slaughtered during the Muslim Hajj. This multi-disciplinary volume is the first to examine the physical foundations of this practice and the significance of the ritual. Brannon Wheeler uses both textual analysis and various types of material evidence to gain insight into the role of animal sacrifice in Islam. He provides a 'thick description' of the elaborate camel sacrifice performed by Muhammad, which serves as the model for future Hajj sacrifices. Wheeler integrates biblical and classical Arabic sources with evidence from zooarchaeology and the rock art of ancient Arabia to gain insight into an event that reportedly occurred 1400 years ago. His book encourages a more nuanced and expansive conception of "sacrifice" in the history of religion.

Sacrifice --- Animal sacrifice --- Islam --- ʻĪd al-Aḍḥā --- History. --- Rituals. --- Fasts and feasts --- Eid al-Adha --- Feast of Sacrifice (Islam) --- Great Festival (Islam) --- ʻĪd al-Kabīr --- ʻĪd al-Naḥr --- ʻĪd al-Qurbān --- Major Festival (Islam) --- Sacrifice, Feast of (Islam) --- Sacrificial Feast (Islam) --- Sharia (Islamic religious practice) --- Worship --- Burnt offering

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Prophets in the Qurʼan --- Qurʼan stories

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Both traditions recognize and draw theological and historical lessons from some of the same narrative sources, but this is the first comparative resource to provide interdisciplinary coverage of the history and textual sources associated with prophets and prophecy. This thorough treatment of a difficult and increasingly controversial subject area will encourage and cultivate knowledge and understanding.

Prophecy --- Prophets --- Minor prophets --- Prophethood --- Seers --- Persons --- Forecasting --- Judaism --- Islam --- Dictionaries --- Biography --- dictionary