The piety of learning : : Islamic studies in honor of Stefan Reichmuth / / edited by Michael Kemper, Ralf Elger.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Text, Volume 147
• TeilnehmendeR: Kemper, Michael,; Elger, Ralf,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 147.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 pages) :; illustrations, photographs.

The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present. Senior scholars discuss Islamic teaching philosophies since the 18th century in Nigeria, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, Russia, and Germany. Particular attention is paid to the power of Islamic poetry and to networks and practices of the Tijāniyya, Rifā‘iyya, Khalwatiyya, Naqshbandiyya, and Shādhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods. The final section highlights some unusual European encounters with Islam, and features a German Pietist who traveled through the Ottoman Empire, a Habsburg officer who converted to Islam in Bosnia, a Dutch colonial Islamologist who befriended a Salafi from Jeddah, and a Soviet historian who preserved Islamic manuscripts. Contributors are: Razaq ‘Deremi Abubakre; Bekim Agai; Rainer Brunner; Alfrid K. Bustanov; Thomas Eich; Ralf Elger; Ulrike Freitag; Michael Kemper; Markus Koller; Anke von Kügelgen; Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; Armina Omerika; Amidu Olalekan Sanni; Yaşar Sarikaya; Rüdiger Seesemann; Shamil Sh. Shikhaliev; Diliara M. Usmanova.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Piety of Learning / Michael Kemper and Ralf Elger -- ʿIlm and Adab Revisited: Knowledge Transmission and Character Formation in Islamic Africa / Rüdiger Seesemann -- From the Intellectual Powerhouse of Ilorin (Nigeria): Elegy in the Work of Adam ʿAbdallāh al-Ilūrī (1917–1992) / Amidu Olalekan Sanni -- The Khādimīs of Konya: The Rise of a Scholarly Family from the Ottoman Periphery / Yaşar Sarıkaya -- Moral Education in Central Asia, 19th–21st Centuries: The Foundations for Sufi, Jadīd, Soviet, National, and Islamist Ethics / Anke von Kügelgen -- The Small World of Aḥmad al-Ṣāwī (1761–1825), an Egyptian Khalwatī Shaykh / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen -- Abū l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī and Ḥadīth / Thomas Eich -- Sayfallāh-Qāḍī Bashlarov: Sufi Networks between the North Caucasus and the Volga-Urals / Shamil Shikhaliev and Michael Kemper -- Against Leviathan: On the Ethics of Islamic Poetry in Soviet Russia / Alfrid K. Bustanov -- Blessing and Curse in the “Promised Land”: Jonas Korte’s Travels in the Ottoman Empire, 1737–1739 / Ralf Elger -- Ömer Pasha Latas and the Ottoman Reform Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1850–1851) / Markus Koller -- The Pilgrim’s Tale as a Means of Self-Promotion: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā’s Journey to the Ḥijāz (1916) / Rainer Brunner -- Scholarly Exchange and Trade: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Naṣīf and His Letters to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje / Ulrike Freitag -- Rescuing the Tatar Muslim Heritage in the Soviet Union: The Expedition Diaries of Mirkasym A. Usmanov / Diliara M. Usmanova -- Islamic Theological Studies in Germany: A Discipline in the Making / Bekim Agai and Armina Omerika -- Stefan Reichmuth’s Wanderings in Arabicized and Islamized Yorubaland / Razaq ‘Deremi Abubakre -- Bibliography of Printed Works -- Index of Personal Names -- Index of Place Names.