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Friends of God : Islamic images of piety, commitment, and servanthood / John Renard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 346 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520940956
  • 0520940954
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Friends of GodDDC classification:
  • 297.092/2 B 22
LOC classification:
  • BP189.43
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Beginnings both humble and spectacular -- Conversation and asceticism on the road to sanctity -- Dreams and visions, visitors and voices: God in touch with his friends -- Miracles and marvels: God working through his friends -- Mere mortals: friends and the human condition -- Friends and their people: society and service to communities -- Founding friends: authority, institutions, and the economics of intentional community -- Where God's friends walked: revered sites and ritual settings -- Friends in our world -- Literary dimensions: genre, function, and hermeneutics -- Theological dimensions: hagiography, faith and controversy.
Summary: "Prophets, saints, martyrs, sages, and seers - one of the richest repositories of lore about such exemplary religious figures belongs to the world's approximately 1.3 billion Muslims. Illuminating some of the most delightful tales in world religious literature, this engaging book is the first truly global overview of Islamic hagiography. John Renard tells of the characters beyond the Qur'an and Hadith, whose stories of piety and service to God and humanity have captured hearts and minds for nearly fourteen hundred years. Renard's thematic approach to the major characters, narratives, social and cultural contexts, and theoretical concepts of this remarkable treasury of tales, based on material ranging from the eighth to the twentieth centuries and from countries ranging from Morocco to Malaysia, provides insight into the ways in which these stories have functioned in the lives of Muslims from diverse cultural, social, economic, and political backgrounds. The book also serves as a useful and evocative tool for approaching the vast geographical and chronological sweep of Islamic civilization."--Book cover
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)230005

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-324) and index.

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Beginnings both humble and spectacular -- Conversation and asceticism on the road to sanctity -- Dreams and visions, visitors and voices: God in touch with his friends -- Miracles and marvels: God working through his friends -- Mere mortals: friends and the human condition -- Friends and their people: society and service to communities -- Founding friends: authority, institutions, and the economics of intentional community -- Where God's friends walked: revered sites and ritual settings -- Friends in our world -- Literary dimensions: genre, function, and hermeneutics -- Theological dimensions: hagiography, faith and controversy.

"Prophets, saints, martyrs, sages, and seers - one of the richest repositories of lore about such exemplary religious figures belongs to the world's approximately 1.3 billion Muslims. Illuminating some of the most delightful tales in world religious literature, this engaging book is the first truly global overview of Islamic hagiography. John Renard tells of the characters beyond the Qur'an and Hadith, whose stories of piety and service to God and humanity have captured hearts and minds for nearly fourteen hundred years. Renard's thematic approach to the major characters, narratives, social and cultural contexts, and theoretical concepts of this remarkable treasury of tales, based on material ranging from the eighth to the twentieth centuries and from countries ranging from Morocco to Malaysia, provides insight into the ways in which these stories have functioned in the lives of Muslims from diverse cultural, social, economic, and political backgrounds. The book also serves as a useful and evocative tool for approaching the vast geographical and chronological sweep of Islamic civilization."--Book cover