LIST OF FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Introduction Chapter One: The Ka'ba as Qibla Chapter Two: The Ka'ba as Navel Chapter Three: The Ka'ba as Substructure Chapter Four: The Ka'ba 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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