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Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam / ed. by Grace Martin Smith, Carl W. Ernst.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish StudiesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (321 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781611438192
  • 9781463233709
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  • 297.6/1
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One. Veneration of the Saints -- GRAVES, SHRINES AND POWER IN A HIGHLAND SUMATRAN SOCIETY -- THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE DRAGON IN THE CULT OF THE SAINTS OF ISLAM -- THE SACRED MUSIC OF THE AHL-IHAQQ AS A MEANS OF MYSTICAL TRANSMISSION -- AN INDO-PERSIAN GUIDE TO SUFI SHRINE PILGRIMAGE -- THE MODERN BUSINESSMAN AND THE PAKISTANI SAINT: THE INTERPENETRATION OF WORLDS -- 'UMAR LBN AL-FARID, A SAINT OF MAMLUK AND OTTOMAN EGYPT -- MUSIC, SAINTS, AND RITUAL: SAM A' AND THE ALEVIS OF TURKEY -- SAMA' IN THE ROYAL COURT OF SAINTS: THE CHISHTIYYA OF SOUTH ASIA -- REFLECTIONS ON THE INTERACTION OF SAINT AND SINGER IN EGYPTIAN DHIKR -- Part Two. Saints and the Political Order -- THE MAN WITH TWO TOMBS: MUHAMMAD IBN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN, FOUNDER OF THE ALGERIAN RAHMANIYYA, CA. 1715-1798 -- THE POLITICAL LIVES OF AFGHAN SAINTS: THE CASE OF THE KABUL HAZRATS -- SAINTHOOD AS MEANS OF SELF-DEFENSE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN ANATOLIA -- DERVISH AND SULTAN: AN ANALYSIS OF THE OTMAN BAB A VILAYETNAMESI -- SHAYKH UWAYS BIN MUHAMMAD AL-BARAWI. A TRADITIONAL SOMALI SUFI -- KALENDERI DERVISHES AND OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION FROM THE FOURTEENTH TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURIES -- Glossary and Index of Terms -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES -- CONTRIBUTORS
Summary: This collection of papers by various scholars discusses a wide range of practices and beliefs relating to saints in Islam. The studies also demonstrate the influence of sainthood on political structures in many societies.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One. Veneration of the Saints -- GRAVES, SHRINES AND POWER IN A HIGHLAND SUMATRAN SOCIETY -- THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE DRAGON IN THE CULT OF THE SAINTS OF ISLAM -- THE SACRED MUSIC OF THE AHL-IHAQQ AS A MEANS OF MYSTICAL TRANSMISSION -- AN INDO-PERSIAN GUIDE TO SUFI SHRINE PILGRIMAGE -- THE MODERN BUSINESSMAN AND THE PAKISTANI SAINT: THE INTERPENETRATION OF WORLDS -- 'UMAR LBN AL-FARID, A SAINT OF MAMLUK AND OTTOMAN EGYPT -- MUSIC, SAINTS, AND RITUAL: SAM A' AND THE ALEVIS OF TURKEY -- SAMA' IN THE ROYAL COURT OF SAINTS: THE CHISHTIYYA OF SOUTH ASIA -- REFLECTIONS ON THE INTERACTION OF SAINT AND SINGER IN EGYPTIAN DHIKR -- Part Two. Saints and the Political Order -- THE MAN WITH TWO TOMBS: MUHAMMAD IBN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN, FOUNDER OF THE ALGERIAN RAHMANIYYA, CA. 1715-1798 -- THE POLITICAL LIVES OF AFGHAN SAINTS: THE CASE OF THE KABUL HAZRATS -- SAINTHOOD AS MEANS OF SELF-DEFENSE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN ANATOLIA -- DERVISH AND SULTAN: AN ANALYSIS OF THE OTMAN BAB A VILAYETNAMESI -- SHAYKH UWAYS BIN MUHAMMAD AL-BARAWI. A TRADITIONAL SOMALI SUFI -- KALENDERI DERVISHES AND OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION FROM THE FOURTEENTH TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURIES -- Glossary and Index of Terms -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES -- CONTRIBUTORS

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This collection of papers by various scholars discusses a wide range of practices and beliefs relating to saints in Islam. The studies also demonstrate the influence of sainthood on political structures in many societies.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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