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

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.

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 Midd...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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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

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