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The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House (2020)
Book
O'Meara, S. (2020). The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House. Edinburgh University Press

Explores the Kaʿba as it has been conceptualised, represented and used by Muslims from the earliest period of Islam onwards. The first book-length exploration of the Kaʿba in a Western language
Explains what the Kaʿba is by examining how it func... Read More about The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House.

Space and Muslim Urban Life: At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez (2007)
Book
O'Meara, S. (2007). Space and Muslim Urban Life: At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203947074

This book develops academic understanding of Muslim urban space by pursuing the structural logic of the premodern Arab-Muslim city, or medina. With particular reference to The Book of Walls, an historical discourse of Islamic law whose primary subjec... Read More about Space and Muslim Urban Life: At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez.