LIST OF FIGURES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction
Chapter One: The Kaʿba as Qibla
Chapter Two: The Kaʿba as Navel
Chapter Three: The Kaʿba as Substructure
Chapter Four: The Kaʿba as Beloved
Chapter Five: The House as Holder
Chapter Six: The House as Dwelling
Conclusion
bibliography
ENDNOTES
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.
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