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The Isis Press
Language
English
Pages
283

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Cover of: Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam
Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam
2011, Gorgias Press, LLC
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Manifestations of sainthood in Islam
1993, The Isis Press
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Table of Contents

Figures Page VII
Preface and Acknowledgements, by Grace Martin Smith Page IX
Note of Transliteration Page X
Introduction, by Carl W. Ernst, with contributions by Suraiya Faroqhi, Bradford G. Martin, Grace Martin Smith, and Bonnie Wade Page XI
Part One. Veneration of Saints and Saintly Powers
Graves, Shrines and Power in a Highland Sumatran Society, by John R. Bowen Page 1
The Iconography of the Dragon in the Cult of the Saints of Islan, by Abbas Daneshvari Page 15
The Sacred Music of the Ahl-i Haqq as a Means of Mystical Transmission, by Jean During Page 27
An Indo-Persian Guide to Sufi Shrine Pilgramige, by Carl W. Ernst Page 43
The Modern Businessman and the Pakistani Saint: The Interpenetration of Worlds, by Katherine P. Ewing Page 69
'Umar Ibn al-Farid, A Saint of Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt, by Th. Emil Homerin Page 85
Music, Saints, and Ritual: Sama' and the Alevis of Turkey, by Irène Markoff Page 95
Sama' in the Royal Court of Saints: The Chishtiyya of South Asia, by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi Page 111
Reflections on the Interaction of Saint and Singer in the Egyptian Dhikr, by Earle Waugh Page 129
Part Two. Saints and the Political Power
The Man with Two Tombs: Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman, Founder of the Algerian Rahmaniyya, ca. 1715-1798, by Julia A. Clancy-Smith Page 147
The Political Lives of Afghan Saints: The Case of the Kabul Hazrats, by David B. Edwards Page 171
Sainthood as a Means of Self-Defense in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia, by Suraiya Faroqhi Page 193
Dervish and Sultan: An Analysis of the Otman Baba Vilayetnamesi, by Halil İnalcık Page 209
Shaykh Uways bin Muhammad al-Barawi, a Traditional Somali Sufi, by Bradford G. Martin Page 225
Kalenderi Dervishes and Ottoman Administration from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries, by Ahmet Yaşar Ocak Page 239
Glossary and Index of Terms Page 257
Index of Subjects Page 267
Index of Names and Places Page 271
Contributors Page 280

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Papers from the International Conference on Saints and Sainthood in Islam, held at the University of California at Berkeley, April, 1987.

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Istanbul

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
297.6/1
Library of Congress
BP189.68 .M36 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 283 p. ;
Number of pages
283

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1262872M
ISBN 10
9754280568
LCCN
94955354
OCLC/WorldCat
31026552
Library Thing
4347747

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