Facing Mecca from Java: Two Treatises on the Establishment of the qibla, and Their Scholarly and Social Context
Between the 1870s and 1902, the Jakarta-based Sayyid ʽUthmān b. ʽAbd Allāh al-ʽAlawī wrote two epistles on the correct establishment of the qibla. Questions on the qibla and, controversially, on correcting the faulty direction of prayer in several mosques in Southeast Asia, surfaced in the late 18th...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2024, Volume: 31, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 102-135 |
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Sayyid ʽUthmān al-ʽAlawī
B Taqlid B Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje B Muḥammad Arshad al-Banjārī B qibla B Islam in Southeast Asia B istiqbāl al-ʽayn B istiqbāl al-jiha |
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