The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325 / / Nathan Hofer.
A social, political and religious history of Sufism in Medieval EgyptAfter the fall of the Fatimid Empire in 1171 and the emergence of a new Sunni polity under the Ayyubids, Sufism came to extraordinary prominence in Egypt. The state founded and funded hospices to attract foreign Sufis to Egypt; loc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART ONE State-sponsored Sufism: The Sufis of the Khānqāh Saʿīd al-Su ʿadāʾ
- 1 The Khānqāh
- 2 The Sufis of the Khānqāh
- 3 What is Popular about the Khānqāh?
- PART TWO State-sanctioned Sufism: The Nascent Shādhilīya
- 4 The Emergence of the Shādhilīya in Egypt
- 5 Al-Iskandarī's Image of the Shādhilī Tarīqa
- 6 The Popularisation of Shādhilī Sufism
- PART THREE Unruly Sufism: The Sufis of Upper Egypt
- 7 The Regional Context of Upper-Egyptian Sufism
- 8 Sufi Activists and Enforcers
- 9 Wonder-working Sufis
- Concluding Remarks
- Works Cited
- Index