Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam - The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker

Sacred Orientation in Late Antiquity and Early Islam: The Qibla as Ritual, Metaphor, and Identity Marker offers a groundbreaking study of how the qibla - Islam's ritual direction of prayer - served not only as a sacred practice but also as a powerful marker of communal identity in Islam's forma-tive centuries.