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Intro -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Grave Markers: Rhetoric and Materiality of Relic and Tomb Veneration in Early Islam -- 2 A Clear Sign: The Maqām Ibrāhīm and Early Islamic Continuity and Difference -- 3 Inverted Inventions: Finding and Hiding Holy Bodies in the First Islamic Century -- 4 Paradoxes and Problems of the Prophetic Body: Muḥammad's Corpse and Tomb -- 5 Places where the Prophet Prayed: Ritualising the Prophet's Traces -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Contributing to scholarship studying Islam alongside other late antique religions, Traces of the Prophets highlights how early Muslims deployed sacred objects and spaces to inscribe and dispute Islam's continuities with, and differences from, Judaism and Christianity.