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Sufism and Society : Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200-1800.

In recent years, many historians of Islamic mysticism have been grappling in sophisticated ways with the difficulties of essentialism. Reconceptualising the study of Islamic mysticism during an under-researched period of its history, this book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Curry, John
Otros Autores: Ohlander, Erik S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Colección:Routledge Sufi series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Sufism and Society; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; A note on transliteration and dating; Introduction: John J. Curry and Erik S. Ohlander; Part I: Historiography; 1. Intersections between Sufism and power: narrating the shaykhs and sultans of Northern India, 1200-1400: Blain H. Auer; 2. Mecca real and imagined: texts, transregional networks, and the curious case of Bahā' al-Dīn Zakariyyā of Multan: Erik S. Ohlander.
  • 3. Hagiography, court records, and early modern Sufi brotherhoods: Shaykh Khālid and social movement theory: Sean FoleyPart II: Landscapes; 4. Mystical authority and governmentality in medieval Islam: Ovamir Anjum; 5. Writing down the feats and setting up the scene: hagiographers and architectural patrons in the Age of Empires: Zeynep Yürekli; 6. Between patron and piety: Jahān Ārā Begam's Sufi affiliations and articulations in seventeenth-century Mughal India: Afshan Bokhari; Part III: Doctrine and praxis.
  • 7. Between center and periphery: the development of the Sufi fatwa in late-medieval Egypt: Matthew B. Ingalls8. Inventing a Sufi tradition: the use of the Futuwwa ritual gathering as a model for the Qizilbash djem: Rıza Yıldırım; 9 İsmāīl Rusūhī Ankaravī An early Mevlevi interventioninto the emerging Kadizadeli-Suficonfl ict; Part IV: Negotiations; 10. Banishment, persecution and incarceration: Ibrahim-i Gülseni's years as a subversive force during the final years of the Mamluk Sultanate, ca. 1507-1517: Side Emre.
  • 11. "The meeting of the two sultans": Three Sufi mystics negotiate with the court of Murad III: John J. Curry12. In the dream realm of a sixteenth-century Ottoman biographer: Tasköprizade and the Sufi shaykhs: Asli Niyazioglu; Index of persons and places; Index of terms and subjects.