Lior Halevi’s Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society explores how burial practices, mourning, cemeteries, and beliefs about the dead helped shape early Islamic society. Halevi shows that funerary customs were more than religious rituals: they became a way for Muslims to define communal boundaries, distinguish themselves from Christians, Jews, and pre-Islamic traditions, and debate issues such as mourning, grave visitation, women’s participation, and the treatment of the dead. At its core, the book examines how attitudes toward death contributed to the formation of Islamic identity, religious norms, and everyday social life.
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