{"id":594,"date":"2016-12-19T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/?p=594"},"modified":"2017-03-13T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T14:52:39","slug":"najaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/12\/19\/najaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Najaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City<\/em> examines the historical and social aspects of one of Iraq\u2019s most important cities, a centre of religious learning and devotion for the Shi\u2018i community since medieval times. Through original contributions by leading Iraqi and international scholars, this volume presents several key aspects of the history and development of the city, its global spiritual and educational prominence and its modern role as an economic and political centre.<\/p>\n<p>The thirteen essays in this book cover topics such as Najaf\u2019s architecture and urban design, as well as the preservation of its built environment; the impact of social movements and revolutions on the city; pilgrimage and religious authority in Najaf; and the city\u2019s libraries and intellectual development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Sabrina Mervin<\/strong> is a specialist of contemporary Shi\u2018ism and a researcher at the CEIFR. <strong>Prof. Robert Gleave<\/strong> is a specialist of Islamic thought and religious authority in Shi\u2018i Islam, and a professor of Arabic Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter University. <strong>Dr G\u00e9raldine Chatelard<\/strong> is a specialist of contemporary Iraq and Jordan and Associate Researcher at Ifpo.<\/p>\n<p>Hardback \u2022 156 mm x 234 mm\u00a0\u2022 ISBN 9780863725760 \u2022 234 pages \u2022 \u00a360.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Najaf: Portrait of a Holy City examines the historical and social aspects of one of Iraq\u2019s most important cities, a centre of religious learning and devotion for the Shi\u2018i community since medieval times. Through original contributions by leading Iraqi and international scholars, this volume presents several key aspects of the history and development of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ithacapress.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}