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Mecca's Perspective as Symbolic Form

Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance
Berkeley Seminars in Art, Literature, and Religion

March 14, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
470 Stephens Hall

Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam, Columbia University; Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

The “Sacred” and the “Holy” (haram in Arabic and, to some extent, al-quds or al-muqaddas), are Semitic words (see Herem and Kadosh in Hebrew) denoting the act of separation, parting, or setting aside, and imply the apparent human faculty of setting distinctive borders between holy and profane zones. Constrained to time, these spaces become chronotopes. […]

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