Mullas, Sufis, and Heretics : : The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society: Collected Articles / / Martin van Bruinessen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Bruinessen, Martin van,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: German
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

A selection of articles by Martin van Bruinessen on the role of religion, religious organisations and figures in the social and political life of the Kurdish society.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- The religious mosaic -- 1. "Religion in Kurdistan" -- 2. "The Kurds and Islam" -- 3. "The Christians of Eastern Turkey, the state and the local power structure" -- Learning and mysticism in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries -- 4. "Religious life in Diyarbekir: religious learning and the role of the tariqats" -- 5. "The Naqshbandī order in 17th-century Kurdistan" -- 6. "The impact of Kurdish 'ulama on Indonesian Islam" -- 7. "A nineteenth century Kurdish scholar in South Africa" -- The social and political roles of sufi orders in Kurdistan -- 8. "Popular Islam, Kurdish nationalism and rural revolt: The rebellion of Shaikh Said in Turkey (1925)" -- 9. "Vom Osmanismus zum Separatismus: Religiöse und ethnische Hintergründe der Rebellion des Scheich Said" -- 10. "The Sâdatê Nehrî or Gîlânîzade of Central Kurdistan" -- 11. "The Qadiriyya and the lineages of Qadiri shaykhs in Kurdistan" -- 12. "Sȗfîs and sultans in Southeast Asia and Kurdistan: a comparative survey" -- Heterodox religious formations in Kurdistan -- 13. "When Haji Bektash still bore the name of Sultan Sahak. Notes on the Ahl-i Haqq of the Guran district" -- 14. "Haji Bektash, Sultan Sahak, Shah Mina Sahib and various avatars of a running wall" -- 15. "The Shabak, a Kizilbash community in Iraqi Kurdistan" -- 16. General Bibliography