Call for participation/Call for papers on "Holy Places in Islam" (date limite: 22 juillet 2013)

Although Muslim theologians generally condemned the belief in the intercessory power of images, places, or objects, the Islamic world was nonetheless filled with dozens of *loca* considered to be holy. These were places in which people sought a privileged contact with the sacred. The project „Holy Places in Islam“ will investigate the modalities through which a specific Muslim society made holy a determinate place or, alternatively, dismissed it. In order to analyse these processes the projec..