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A Learned Society in a Period of Transition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-08-03
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Addresses the social significance of orthodox Islam during the medieval period in Baghdad.

Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety

This book represents the first continuous history of Sufism in Palestine. Covering the period between the rise of Islam and the spread of Ottoman rule and drawing on vast biographical material and complementary evidence, the book describes the social trajectory that Sufism followed. The narrative centers on the process by which ascetics, mystics, and holy figures living in medieval Palestine and collectively labeled "Sufis," disseminated their traditions, formed communities, and helped shape an Islamic society and space. The work makes an original contribution to the study of the diffusion of Islam's religious traditions and the formation of communities of believers in medieval Palestine, as...

Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria
  • Language: en

Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria

This study explores the creation of saintly spheres in medieval Syrian landscapes surrounding Sufi masters and friends of God.

Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 551

Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-07
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes explores the creation, expansion, and perpetuation of the material and imaginary spheres of spiritual domination and sanctity that surrounded Sufi saints and became central to religious authority, Islamic piety, and the belief in the miraculous.

The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies

Challenging conventional assumptions, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume argue that premodern Muslim societies had diverse and changing varieties of public spheres, constructed according to premises different from those of Western societies. The public sphere, conceptualized as a separate and autonomous sphere between the official and private, is used to shed new light on familiar topics in Islamic history, such as the role of the shari`a (Islamic religious law), the `ulama' (Islamic scholars), schools of law, Sufi brotherhoods, the Islamic endowment institution, and the relationship between power and culture, rulers and community, from the ninth to twentieth centuries.

Learned Society in a Period of Transition, A
  • Language: en

Learned Society in a Period of Transition, A

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

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Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma
  • Language: en

Religious Knowledge, Authority, and Charisma

An innovative volume that examines the sources and types of religious authority throughout history and across Islamic and Judaic cultures

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2000-08-03
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Addresses the social significance of orthodox Islam during the medieval period in Baghdad.

Great Seljuk Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Great Seljuk Empire

The first English language general history of the Great Seljuk Empire outlines its chronological history and will explores its religious and institutional history.

Placing Islam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Placing Islam

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul's most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried in the tomb at its center: Halid bin Zeyd Ebû Eyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Timur Hammond argues here, however, that making a geography of Islam involves considerably more. Following practices of storytelling and building projects from the final years of the Ottoman Empire to the early 2010s, Placing Islam shows how different individuals and groups articulated connections among people, places, traditions, and histories to make a place that is paradoxically defined by both powerful continuities and dynamic relationships to the city and wider world. This book provides a rich account of urban religion in Istanbul, offering a key opportunity to reconsider how we understand the changing cultures of Islam in Turkey and beyond.