On Archaeology of Sainthood and Local Spirituality in Islam : : Past and Present Crossroads of Events and Ideas (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 5) / / ed. by Georg Stauth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ahmed, Chanfi,; Andezian, Sossie,; El-Aswad, El-Sayed,; Franke, Patrick,; Hadibi, Mohand Akli,; Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine,; Oppen, Achim von,; Pinto, Paulo G.,; Sariönder, Refika,; Schielke, Samuli,; Spadola, Emilio,; Stauth, Georg,
• HerausgeberIn: Stauth, Georg,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Globaler lokaler Islam
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

Saints, their places, the rituals of their veneration - the heroes and martyrs they represent or to whom they are often connected with - and the beliefs in their powers have often been described as being counter-thematic to the constructive issues of modern society in our times. However, in the Middle East - and certainly this is true for many other world regions and other world religions - local saints, Jewish, Christian and Islamic, have gained a very ambiguous status in religious movements, political struggles and events of social re-construction. In the case of Islam, perhaps more openly, modernists and fundamentalists alike attempt to abolish or to re-formulate the agenda of venerating the saints. However, at the same time saints and their localities have become a sort of overcharged symbolic incidence in the modern presence of Islam, in politics, in the media and - perhaps on a more hidden ground - in the struggle of ideas. In this volume historians, islamologists, anthropologists and sociologists give a multiple description of the inherent issues of the unhampered continuity of Muslim saints and their significance. With this volume 5, the Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam is linking empirical research on individual saints (including cases from Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Syria and Morocco) with the debates around Islam and modernity.Georg Stauth teaches Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and has widely published on Islam and Theory of Modernity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Muslim Saints and Modernity -- Chapter 1. Holy Ancestors, Sufi Shaykhs and Founding Myths: Networks of Religious Geography in the Central Nile Delta -- Chapter 2. Khidr in Istanbul: Observations on the Symbolic Construction of Sacred Spaces in Traditional Islam -- Chapter 3. Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi and Hacı Bektaş Veli: Two Faces of Turkish Islam. Encounters, Orders, Politics -- Chapter 4. From “Total Fullness” to “Emptiness”: Past Realities, Reform Movements and the Future of the Zawiyas in Kabylia -- Chapter 5. Saba Ishirini: A Commemoration Ceremony as the Performance of Translocality around the South Swahili Coast -- Chapter 6. Old Practices and New 1 Meanings: Saint Veneration in Western Algeria -- Chapter 7. Sacred Networks: Sainthood in Regional Sanctified Cults in the Egyptian Delta -- Chapter 8. Jinn, Islam and Media in Morocco -- Chapter 9. On Snacks and Saints: When Discourses of Rationality and Order Enter the Egyptian Mawlid -- Chapter 10. Performing Baraka: Sainthood and Power in Syrian Sufism -- Abstracts -- On the authors and editors -- Backmatter