« Satan's House » : The hammâm under debate in Medieval Islam How should one account for the islamization of Roman baths from the seventh to eighth centuries onwards ? The most commonly accepted explanation maintains that the hammâm was adopted quickly and easily because of the major ritual function it fulfils. However, an analysis of the legal literature during the first centuries of the Hijra reeveals strenuous opposition to this adaptation, especially in certain religious circles, and that the requirement of physical purification played but a modest role. Like rabbinic Judaism, albeit with some reservations concerning sexual morals, Islam endorses the classical culture of bathing, propagating and promoting such practices in turn.Commen...
à paraître dans ouvrage collectif sous ma directionThe aim of this « essai » is a reflection on the ...
The social issue of the body. The North African hammam (19th-20th century). A perenially, threatened...
When approaching Roman bathhouses from within a larger chronological framework, they often figure as...
« Satan's House » : The hammâm under debate in Medieval Islam How should one account for the islam...
The Hammam in manuscripts and ancient works of the Arabic medical literature. The first hammams appe...
The hammams (or Islamic bath-houses), commonly known as ‘Turkish baths’, are one of the key urban fa...
Tahāra, the Islamic regulations of purity are discussed as they appear in the Islamic scriptures, an...
International audienceAccording to the literary sources, was the pagan character of the baths in the...
Taking the waters in al-Andalus. Practice and frequentation of the hamma - Both mediaeval Arab sourc...
Guitard Eugène-Humbert. La période où dans l'Islam médiéval la pharmacie a connu une apogée : Sami H...
The Bath of the Women of Melun : Medieval Jews and Ritual Baths' Cold Water - The article deals with...
Helfand William H. Médecin et médecine dans l'Islam médiéval : Sami Hamarneh, The physician and the ...
International audienceA place for hygiene and purification, the hammam is also a place for socializi...
The bath in the Islamic world has been presented as an essential building dedicated to the umma, as ...
Religion and faith are of the most factors that affect all architectural forms andcomponents. Musl...
à paraître dans ouvrage collectif sous ma directionThe aim of this « essai » is a reflection on the ...
The social issue of the body. The North African hammam (19th-20th century). A perenially, threatened...
When approaching Roman bathhouses from within a larger chronological framework, they often figure as...
« Satan's House » : The hammâm under debate in Medieval Islam How should one account for the islam...
The Hammam in manuscripts and ancient works of the Arabic medical literature. The first hammams appe...
The hammams (or Islamic bath-houses), commonly known as ‘Turkish baths’, are one of the key urban fa...
Tahāra, the Islamic regulations of purity are discussed as they appear in the Islamic scriptures, an...
International audienceAccording to the literary sources, was the pagan character of the baths in the...
Taking the waters in al-Andalus. Practice and frequentation of the hamma - Both mediaeval Arab sourc...
Guitard Eugène-Humbert. La période où dans l'Islam médiéval la pharmacie a connu une apogée : Sami H...
The Bath of the Women of Melun : Medieval Jews and Ritual Baths' Cold Water - The article deals with...
Helfand William H. Médecin et médecine dans l'Islam médiéval : Sami Hamarneh, The physician and the ...
International audienceA place for hygiene and purification, the hammam is also a place for socializi...
The bath in the Islamic world has been presented as an essential building dedicated to the umma, as ...
Religion and faith are of the most factors that affect all architectural forms andcomponents. Musl...
à paraître dans ouvrage collectif sous ma directionThe aim of this « essai » is a reflection on the ...
The social issue of the body. The North African hammam (19th-20th century). A perenially, threatened...
When approaching Roman bathhouses from within a larger chronological framework, they often figure as...