Sufis In Medieval Baghdad
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Sufis in Medieval Baghdad
Author | : Atta Muhammad |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2023-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780755647590 |
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This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor. The book reveals the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period. It also reveals the role of ordinary, non-elite actors who, by taking part in Sufi-affiliated religious or professional associations, were able take part in public life in late-Abbasid Baghdad.
Sufism
Author | : Ahmet T. Karamustafa |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007-04-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780748628971 |
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This book is a comprehensive historical overview of the formative period of Sufism, the major mystical tradition in Islam, from the ninth to the twelfth century CE. Based on a fresh reading of the primary sources and integrating the findings of recent scholarship on the subject, the author presents a unified narrative of Sufism's historical development within an innovative analytical framework. Karamustafa gives a new account of the emergence of mystical currents in Islam during the ninth century and traces the rapid spread of Iraq-based Sufism to other regions of the Islamic world and its fusion with indigenous mystical movements elsewhere, most notably the Malr cultural context
The Unseen
Author | : Laury Silvers |
Publsiher | : Laury Silvers |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781777531331 |
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Laury Silvers is a retired historian of early Islam and early Sufism. She is a North American Muslim living in Toronto. Book Three in The Sufi Mysteries Quartet It’s easier to solve a crime than solve yourself Baghdad, 295 Hijri (908 CE) When a young man is found dead, killed in the exact manner as a martyr slain on the fields of Karbala some two hundred years before, there is no mistaking it as anything other than an attack on the Shia community of Baghdad. The city is on edge as religious and political factions are exposed sending the caliph’s army into the streets. Ammar and Tein have to clear the case, one way or another, before violence erupts. But Zaytuna has had a visionary dream of the murder that holds the key to solving the case. Can she can read its signs? And will Tein and Ammar listen? "Completely engrossing and richly atmospheric. Tenth century Baghdad comes alive through the eyes of a dazzling cast of characters." —Ausma Zehanat Khan, critically acclaimed author of A Deadly Divide from The Getty-Khattak Mysteries, and The Khorasan Archives “In this exceptionally well-written and lucid book, Laury Silvers brings the intricacies of medieval Islamic religiosities and society to life. In exploring the little-known religious communities of medieval Baghdad, Silvers invites the reader to journey through the often forgotten multifaceted dimensions of pre-modern society, addressing questions such as dissent, sectarianism, and communal relations.” — Ahab Bdaiwi, Leiden and Cambridge Universities
Philosophers Sufis and Caliphs
Author | : Ali Humayun Akhtar |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107182011 |
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This book investigates the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history from Morocco to Egypt and Iraq.
Sufism in an Age of Transition
Author | : Erik Ohlander |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2008-02-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789047432142 |
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Based on heretofore unexplored sources, this book offers a comprehensive study of the life, work, thought and influence of the eponym of one of the earliest Sufi ṭarīqa lineages, Abū 'Umar al-Suhrawardī (d. 632/1234).
Sufism and Early Islamic Piety
Author | : Arin Shawkat Salamah-Qudsi |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108422710 |
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Explores aspects of the private lives and interpersonal ties, between the personal and communal domains of early Sufis.
Spiritual Wayfarers Leaders in Piety
Author | : Daphna Ephrat |
Publsiher | : Harvard CMES |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674032012 |
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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 well as the Islamization of Palestinian landscape and the spread of popular religiosity in this area. The study of the area-specific is placed within the broader context of the history of Sufism, and the book is laced with observations about the historical social dimensions of Islamic mysticism in general. Central to its subject matters are the diffusion of Sufi traditions, the extension of the social horizons of Sufism, and the emergence of institutions and public spaces around the Sufi friend of God. As such, the book is of interest to historians in the fields of Sufism, Islam, and the Near East.
Sufi Bodies
Author | : Shahzad Bashir |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780231144919 |
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"Bashir weaves a rich history of Sufi Islam around the depiction of bodily actions in Sufi literature and miniature paintings produced circa 1300-1500 CE. Focusing on the Persianate societies of Iran and Central Asia, he explores medieval Sufis' conception of the human body as the primary shuttle between interior (batin) and exterior (zahir) realities with particular attention to three arenas: religious activity in the form of rituals, rules of etiquette, asceticism, and a universal hierarchy of saints; the deep imprint of Persian poetic paradigms on the articulation of love, desire, and gender; and the reputation of Sufi masters for working miracles, which empowered them in all domains of social activity. Bashir ultimately offers a new methodology for extracting historical information from religious narratives"--Cover p. [4].