HZ.PEYGAMBER DÖNEMİNDE CENAZELER VE KABİRLER: BAKΑA UÇAN VÜCÛD-İ CÂVİDÂNÎLER

Abstract

Funeral Ceremonies and Grave Styles in The Prophet Muhammad’s Time

Abstract

Death is a phenomenon that has both psychical and sociocultural aspects. That is to say, having an unknown and complex nature death is a psychical concept and in view of various funeral ceremonies and grave styles it is a sociocultural concept. Like all other societies, the Arabian society before the reign of the Prophet Muhammad had some beliefs and rituals related to death and funeral ceremonies. With the prophet’s new principles and practices about the concept of death however, they started to put what they learnt into practice while carrying on with some of the former ways. In this article, we intend to study the practice of the Arabian society about funeral ceremonies and graves. Discussing the subject from sociocultural point of view we will study the process after death with its important elements, i.e Islam prayer at funerals and burials and graves. So, the subjects like illness, visit the sick, the moment of death, the dead body’s shroud etc. will be held in another article. Furthermore, death phenomenon will be considered as an important part of social life and held according to the historical methods. With this study we aim to use hadith as historical records for filling the gaps on the social life of the Prophet Muhammad’s reign. Hence, hadith will be a field that gives valuable records to history for supporting the latter’s effort to find all the necessary information about historical process.