The Politics of the Two Qiblahs and the Emergence of an Alternative Islamic Monotheism

Changing the prayer direction from Makkah to Jerusalem and then back to Makkah was probably one of the first Muslim community’s most contentious incidents. Due to its being highlighted in Q. 2:142-44, it has aroused an unending debate among Muslim exegetes, jurists, and western historians as to why...

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Autor principal:	Eltigani Abdelgadir Hamid
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Publicado:	International Institute of Islamic Thought 2016
Materias:	Islam BP1-253
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6d8bc5b4fe354a9b88b37d65cd90a0d42021-12-02T17:25:59ZThe Politics of the Two Qiblahs and the Emergence of an Alternative Islamic Monotheism10.35632/ajis.v33i1.2312690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/6d8bc5b4fe354a9b88b37d65cd90a0d42016-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/231https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Changing the prayer direction from Makkah to Jerusalem and then back to Makkah was probably one of the first Muslim community’s most contentious incidents. Due to its being highlighted in Q. 2:142-44, it has aroused an unending debate among Muslim exegetes, jurists, and western historians as to why the qiblah was changed. Was it based on a divine command or Muhammad’s independent judgment, a move to dilute the Arabs’ emotional attachment to the Ka‘bah, or a move to win over Madinah’s Jewish community? Might it have been a throwback to the Abrahamic heritage, envisaged by the Prophet as a base for a wider, monolithic Islamic nationalism? This article seeks to closely examine and clarify the “qiblah literature” in an attempt to reveal the Ka‘bah’s role not only as a geographical locale but also as a spiritual magnet, and to find out whether this incident represented a break or a continuation of an earlier strategy of socio-religious change. Eltigani Abdelgadir HamidInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 33, Iss 1 (2016)
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description	Changing the prayer direction from Makkah to Jerusalem and then back to Makkah was probably one of the first Muslim community’s most contentious incidents. Due to its being highlighted in Q. 2:142-44, it has aroused an unending debate among Muslim exegetes, jurists, and western historians as to why the qiblah was changed. Was it based on a divine command or Muhammad’s independent judgment, a move to dilute the Arabs’ emotional attachment to the Ka‘bah, or a move to win over Madinah’s Jewish community? Might it have been a throwback to the Abrahamic heritage, envisaged by the Prophet as a base for a wider, monolithic Islamic nationalism? This article seeks to closely examine and clarify the “qiblah literature” in an attempt to reveal the Ka‘bah’s role not only as a geographical locale but also as a spiritual magnet, and to find out whether this incident represented a break or a continuation of an earlier strategy of socio-religious change.
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title_short	The Politics of the Two Qiblahs and the Emergence of an Alternative Islamic Monotheism
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The Politics of the Two Qiblahs and the Emergence of an Alternative Islamic Monotheism

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