Saintly Spheres And Islamic Landscapes

Author : Daphna Ephrat
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004444270
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes written by Daphna Ephrat and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Daphna Ephrat
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
ISBN 13 : 9781641894647
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria written by Daphna Ephrat and published by ARC Humanities Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the creation of saintly spheres in medieval Syrian landscapes surrounding Sufi masters and friends of God.

Author : Daphna Ephrat
Publisher : Handbook of Oriental Studies
ISBN 13 : 9789004443655
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes written by Daphna Ephrat and published by Handbook of Oriental Studies. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004525327
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing and Contesting Holy Places in Medieval Islam and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Timur Warner Hammond
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520387430
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Placing Islam written by Timur Warner Hammond and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ron Sela
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527095
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia written by Ron Sela and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features 11 essays that explore the issue of religious authority among Muslim communities of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet worlds of Russia, the North Caucasus, the Volga-Ural region, and Central Asia.

Author : Eric Tagliacozzo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501772414
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Ecumene written by Eric Tagliacozzo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practice diverse forms of Islam, they are united by shared practices and worldviews shaped by religious identity. To highlight these commonalities, the co-editors invited a team of scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine Muslim societies in comparative and interconnected ways. The result is a book that showcases ethics, education, architecture, the arts, modernization, political resistance, marriage, divorce, and death rituals. Using the insights and methods of historians, anthropologists, literary critics, art historians, political scientists, and sociologists, Islamic Ecumene seeks to understand Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon that is reflected in the multivalent practices of the more than one billion people across the planet who identify as Muslims.

Author : Jacob Mikanowski
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1984898094
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodbye, Eastern Europe written by Jacob Mikanowski and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed, from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism—illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history "Eastern Europe" has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone today, and they might tell you that Estonia is in the Baltics or Scandinavia, that Slovakia is in Central Europe, and that Croatia is in the eastern Adriatic or the Balkans. In fact, Eastern Europe is a place that barely exists at all, except in cultural memory. Yet it remains a powerful marker of identity for many, with a fragmented and wide-ranging history defined by texts, myths, and memories of centuries of hardship and suffering. Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a masterful narrative about a place that has survived being forgotten. Beginning with long-lost accounts of early pagan life, Mikanowski offers a kaleidoscopic tour of the various peoples who made Eastern Europe their home over the centuries, including the Roma, Jews, and Muslims; the great kingdoms of the medieval period; the rise and fall of the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian empires; the dawn of the modern era; the ravages of fascism and Communism; the birth of the modern nation-state and beyond. A student of literature, history, and the ghosts of his own family’s past, Mikanowski paints a magisterial portrait of a place united by diversity and eclecticism, and of people with the shared story of being the dominated rather than the dominating. The result is a loving and ebullient celebration of the distinctive and vibrant cultures that stubbornly persisted at the margins of Western Europe and Russia, and a powerful corrective that re-centers not only our understanding of how the modern Western world took shape but also the ways in which Eastern Europe has evolved throughout history to become what it is today.

Author : Alexandre Papas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004392602
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufi Institutions written by Alexandre Papas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the social and practical aspects of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) across centuries and geographical regions. Its authors seek to transcend ethereal, essentialist and “spiritualizing” approaches to Sufism, on the one hand, and purely pragmatic and materialistic explanations of its origins and history, on the other. Covering five topics (Sufism’s economy, social role of Sufis, Sufi spaces, politics, and organization), the volume shows that mystics have been active socio-religious agents who could skillfully adjust to the conditions of their time and place, while also managing to forge an alternative way of living, worshiping and thinking. Basing themselves on the most recent research on Sufi institutions, the contributors to this volume substantially expand our understanding of the vicissitudes of Sufism by paying special attention to its organizational and economic dimensions, as well as complex and often ambivalent relations between Sufis and the societies in which they played a wide variety of important and sometimes critical roles. Contributors are Mehran Afshari, Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Semih Ceyhan, Rachida Chih, Nathalie Clayer, David Cook, Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Daphna Ephrat, Peyvand Firouzeh, Nathan Hofer, Hussain Ahmad Khan, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Richard McGregor, Ahmet Yaşar Ocak, Alexandre Papas, Luca Patrizi, Paulo G. Pinto, Adam Sabra, Mark Sedgwick, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Knut S. Vikør and Neguin Yavari

Author : AA: VV:
Publisher : Mimesis
ISBN 13 : 8869774716
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey Among Dervishes Between Past and Present written by AA: VV: and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2024-03-08T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book intends to invite readers on a multi-dimensional and multifaceted journey meeting dervishes in different places and environments of the Muslim world; its peculiarity is to bring together a classical orientalist approach, based on texts and written documents, with the approach typical of Anthropology, Ethnography and Ethnomusicology, based on research in the field and oral sources: the ethnographic study of the present sheds new light on practices, methods and theories exposed in treatises of the Past while, at the same time, practices of the present may be clarified and illuminated by the study of ancient Sufi texts and authors. These different approaches want to draw attention to the multiple dimensions embraced by “tasawwuf” (Sufism) both in its historical and social context and in its nontemporal aspect, concerning spirituality and the ways the latter is conveyed and transmitted, both in the past and present.