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This is a book of scholarly value that should prove important as a source for the more specialized study of individual cults and their sites. It is also distinctly thought-provoking and thus takes a worthy place in the ongoing study of the theological and sociological interrelationships of Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle East. Bulletin of The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies [Meri] examines aspects of the cult of saints with impeccable objectivity and admirable clarity, employing to the full his impressive mastery of the primary sources, in Arabic, Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic ... his meticulous attention to detail is one of the strongest features of this work in academic terms. Transcendent Philosophy a model of scholarship James E. Lindsay, Al-Masaq Meri has written a fascinating volume which deserves to be consulted by all specialists in Islamic Studies and which, because of its careful structure and lucidity, will appeal to a much wider audience as well. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society a richly descriptive...valuable [and] fine monograph Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 70/1

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Josef Meri holds the doctorate from the University of Oxford (Wolfson College) and is a specialist in the social and cultural history of the medieval Islamic world and interfaith relations and is an historian of ideas. He is presently at work on a book entitled Sacred Landscapes of the Medieval Islamic World and is serving as General Editor of the forthcoming Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia.

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