Cemeteries and funerary architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Cemeteries and funerary architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ruggles, D. Fairchild

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061228
Doc. NO	:	ALei1625
Main Entry	:	Ruggles, D. Fairchild
Title & Author	:	Cemeteries and funerary architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ruggles, D. Fairchild
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(4,669 words)
Abstract	:	Cemeteries vary widely across the Islamic world, from simple open-air burial areas to large imperial funerary complexes containing graves marked with simple headstones and free-standing domed tombs. Although Prophetic ḥadīth s strongly discouraged the building of tombs and the visiting of graves, the practice was not expressly forbidden, and thus, from the earliest centuries of Islam, cemeteries and commemorative monuments proliferated amongst both Sunnī and Shīʿī Muslims. Early cemeteries were typically located outside the city walls, but, as cities expanded gradually beyond their original perimeters, they often penetrated
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1625.pdf