KaE ba Orientations

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KaE ba Orientations is written by Simon O'Meara and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0748699317 (ISBN 10) and 9780748699315 (ISBN 13).

The most sacred site of Islam, the KaE ba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and matrix mundi of the Islamic world; as an architectural principle in the bedrock of this world; as a circumambulated goal of pilgrimage and site of spiritual union for mystics and Sufis; and as a dwelling that is imagined to shelter temporarily an animating force; but which otherwise, as a house, holds a void.