Abstract
This article argues that any exploration of the textual representations of place, space, and landscape in the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic tradition requires grasping the cultural conception of the centre reflecting developments from a long historical and textual tradition of cosmological ideas found in the work of Yaqut’s (d. 1229) Mujam al-buldan, and al-Suyuti’s (d. 1505) al-Hayat al-saniyah fil-hayat al-sunniyah. It further explores the complex construct of the centre in Islam within the context of its relation to the origin of Islamic cities by considering it an organising principle of the mental and moral disposition for spiritual and physical orientation.
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