Muhammad’s Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage. By Michael Muhammad Knight

Michael Muhammad Knight’s thought-provoking and compelling new book joins a growing literature using materiality and embodiment as lenses for the study of Islam. Like Adam Bursi’s work on relics and ritual and Travis Zadeh’s work on the physicality of the Qur’an, it uses early Islamic texts to acces...

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Main Author: Katz, Marion Holmes 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2021
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 2, Pages: 777-780
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