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The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam: Iconoclasm, Destruction and Idolatry

The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam: Iconoclasm, Destruction and Idolatry

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Islam

ISBN10: 1474417574
ISBN13: 9781474417570
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

In various parts of the Islamic world over the past decades virulent attacks have targeted Islamic funeral and sacral architecture. Rather than being random acts of vandalism, these are associated with the idea of performing one's religious duty as attested to in the Salafi/Wahhabi tradition and texts. Graves, shrines and tombs are regarded by some Muslims as having the potential to tempt a believer to polytheism. Hence the duty to level the graves to the ground (taswiyat al-qubūr).

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