In the Vicinity of the Righteous
Title | In the Vicinity of the Righteous PDF eBook |
Author | Taylor |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2021-11-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004492720 |
This first in-depth scholarly study of the institution of ziyāra (visiting tombs), and its central role in the cult of Muslim saints in late medieval Egypt (1200-1500 A.D.), makes an original contribution to the social history of religion. It explores the range of meanings that saints held for the contemporary imagination through richly textured descriptions and analysis of the great cemetery of al-Qarāfa, the rituals of the ziyāra, and the entertaining stories told to pious visitors about the saints. It thus provides a vivid sense of this vital expression of Muslim spirituality. Through an examination of legal debates surrounding ziyāra, the dichotomous view of 'high' versus 'popular' religion is effectively challenged in favor of a more fluid model of cultural discourse.
The Living and the Dead in Islam: Epitaphs as texts
Title | The Living and the Dead in Islam: Epitaphs as texts PDF eBook |
Author | Werner Diem |
Publisher | Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Epitaphs |
ISBN | 9783447050838 |
Revival from Below
Title | Revival from Below PDF eBook |
Author | Brannon D. Ingram |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2018-11-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520297997 |
The Deoband movement—a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that quickly spread from colonial India to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and even the United Kingdom and South Africa—has been poorly understood and sometimes feared. Despite being one of the most influential Muslim revivalist movements of the last two centuries, Deoband’s connections to the Taliban have dominated the attention it has received from scholars and policy-makers alike. Revival from Below offers an important corrective, reorienting our understanding of Deoband around its global reach, which has profoundly shaped the movement’s history. In particular, the author tracks the origins of Deoband’s controversial critique of Sufism, how this critique travelled through Deobandi networks to South Africa, as well as the movement’s efforts to keep traditionally educated Islamic scholars (`ulama) at the center of Muslim public life. The result is a nuanced account of this global religious network that argues we cannot fully understand Deoband without understanding the complex modalities through which it spread beyond South Asia.
Constructing and Contesting Holy Places in Medieval Islam and Beyond
Title | Constructing and Contesting Holy Places in Medieval Islam and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2024-05-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004525327 |
This volume brings together thirteen case studies devoted to the establishment, growth, and demise of holy places in Muslim societies, thereby providing a global look on Muslim engagement with the emplacement of the holy. Combining research by historians, art historians, archaeologists, and historians of religion, the volume bridges different approaches to the study of the concept of “holiness” in Muslim societies. It addresses a wide range of geographical regions, from Indonesia and India to Morocco and Senegal, highlighting the strategies implemented in the making and unmaking of holy places in Muslim lands. Contributors: David N. Edwards, Claus-Peter Haase, Beatrice Hendrich, Sara Kuehn, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Sara Mondini, Harry Munt, Luca Patrizi, George Quinn, Eric Ross, Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino, Ethel Sara Wolper.
Outlines of Discourses Doctrinal and Expository
Title | Outlines of Discourses Doctrinal and Expository PDF eBook |
Author | James Stewart (Minister of Free South Church, Aberdeen.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Outlines of Discourses
Title | Outlines of Discourses PDF eBook |
Author | James Stewart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1860 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN |
The Canonization of Al-Bukh?r? and Muslim
Title | The Canonization of Al-Bukh?r? and Muslim PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Brown |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 2007-06-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004158391 |
Drawing on canon studies, this book investigates the origins, development and functions of the core of the Sunni ?ad?th canon, the 'Authentic' ?ad?th collections of al-Bukh?r? and Muslim, from the time of their authors to the modern period.