Kaba Orientations - Readings in Islam''s Ancient House

The most sacred site of Islam, the Kaʿba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects.

About the author

Simon O'Meara is an architectural historian of early to pre-modern urban Islamic culture, with a methodological interest in using the discourses of Islam to explore Islamic visuality and understand what scholarship can struggle to accommodate or see. He is Lecturer in the History of Architecture and Archaeology of the Islamic Middle East at SOAS, University of London.

Product details

• Authors: Simon O'Meara, Simon O''meara
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781399548571
• ISBN: 978-1-399-54857-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous