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