Prayer in Islamic thought and practice / Marion Holmes Katz.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Themes in Islamic history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Canonical prayer (ṣalat) and supplication (duʻa'): development and rules
- Ṣalat: conditions and components
- Supplication: duʻa'
- Valid prayer and ideal prayer
- Intent (nīya)
- Reverence (khushu') and concentration (ḥuḍūr al-qalb)
- The cultivation of emotion
- Ethical transformation
- Interpretive models: what is ṣalat, and what does it do?
- The model of the royal audience
- Prayer as communication
- Ṣalat as an exercise in self-discipline
- Ṣalat as a reflection of the cosmos
- Modern developments
- The community at prayer: congregational prayer, prayer leadership (imama), and the boundaries of the religious community
- Friday prayers
- Leadership in prayer (imama)
- Prayer behind a leader of another legal school
- Knowledge of prayer and its distribution in the community
- Failure to pray
- Modern developments
- Women and prayer
- Women's prayer leadership (imama) and placement within the congregation
- Women's mosque access
- Knowledge and mastery of prayer.