Sufism In Ottoman Egypt

Author : Rachida Chih
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429648632

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Sufism in Ottoman Egypt by Rachida Chih Pdf

This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the cultural, socio-economic and political backdrop against which Sufism gained prominence, it looks at its influence in both the institutions for religious learning and popular piety. The study seeks to broaden the observed space of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt by placing it within its imperial and international context, highlighting on one hand the specificities of Egyptian Sufism, and on the other the links that it maintained with other spiritual traditions that influenced it. Studying Sufism as a global phenomenon, taking into account its religious, cultural, social and political dimensions, this book also focuses on the education of the increasing number of aspirants on the Sufi path, as well as on the social and political role of the Sufi masters in a period of constant and often violent political upheaval. It ultimately argues that, starting in medieval times, Egypt was simultaneously attracting foreign scholars inward and transmitting ideas outward, but these exchanges intensified during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a result of the new imperial context in which the country and its people found themselves. Hence, this book demonstrates that the concept of ‘neosufism’ should be dispensed with and that the Ottoman period in no way constituted a time of decline for religious culture, or the beginning of a normative and fundamentalist Islam. Sufism in Ottoman Egypt provides a valuable contribution to the new historiographical approach to the period, challenging the prevailing teleology. As such, it will prove useful to students and scholars of Islam, Sufism and religious history, as well as Middle Eastern history more generally.

Author : F. de Jong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015051956665

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Sufi Orders in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Egypt and the Middle East by F. de Jong Pdf

Author : Michael Winter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351489157

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Society and Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt by Michael Winter Pdf

The sixteenth century was a watershed in Egyptian his- tory. After being the center of powerful Islamic empires for centuries, Egypt was conquered in 1517 and made an outlying province of the Ottoman Empire. This study illuminates aspects of Egypt's social, intellectual, and religious life in the sixteenth century, as described by the Egyptian Sufi 'Abd al-Wahhb al-Sha'rn, one of the last original writers before cultural decadence permeated the Arab world in the late Middle Ages. A prominent social commentator, Sha'rn reflected the intense Turkish-Egyptian struggle of the period and provided a vivid and intimate account of the Muslim world during the later medieval stage. Now in paperback, Society and Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt attempts to give a comprehensive analysis of Shaærani writings.

Author : Side Emre
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004341371

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Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani Order by Side Emre Pdf

This book is a historical study on Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani order of dervishes. It examines the order’s influence, network, and legacy on early modern regional and imperial politics and society in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Michael Winter
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Sufism
ISBN : 0878553517

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Society and Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt by Michael Winter Pdf

The sixteenth century was a watershed in Egyptian his- tory. After being the center of powerful Islamic empires for centuries, Egypt was conquered in 1517 and made an outlying province of the Ottoman Empire. This study illuminates aspects of Egypt's social, intellectual, and religious life in the sixteenth century, as described by the Egyptian Sufi 'Abd al-Wahhb al-Sha'rn, one of the last original writers before cultural decadence permeated the Arab world in the late Middle Ages. A prominent social commentator, Sha'rn reflected the intense Turkish-Egyptian struggle of the period and provided a vivid and intimate account of the Muslim world during the later medieval stage. Now in paperback, Society and Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt attempts to give a comprehensive analysis of ShaAErani writings.

Author : Nikola Pantić
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000962611

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Sufism in Ottoman Damascus by Nikola Pantić Pdf

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study focuses on historical beliefs in baraka, which religious authorities often interpreted as Allah's grace, and the alleged Sufi-ulamaic role in distributing it to Ottoman subjects. This book highlights considerable overlaps between Sufis and ʿulamāʾ with state appointments in early modern Province of Damascus, arguing for the possibility of sociologically defining a Muslim priestly sodality, a group of religious authorities and wonder-workers responsible for Sunni orthodoxy in the Ottoman Empire. The Sufi-ʿulamāʾ were integral to Ottoman networks of the holy, networks of grace that comprised of hallowed individuals, places, and natural objects. Sufism in Ottoman Damascus sheds new light on the appropriate scholarly approach to historical studies of Sufism in the Ottoman Empire, revising its position in official early modern versions of Ottoman Sunnism. This book further re-approaches early modern Sunni beliefs in wonders and wonder-working, as well as the relationship between religion, thaumaturgy, and magic in Ottoman Sunni Islam, historical themes comparable to other religions and other parts of the world.

Author : Michael Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Sufism
ISBN : 0835770265

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Society and Religion in Early Ottoman Egypt by Michael Winter Pdf

Author : Earle H. Waugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789774160899

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Visionaries of Silence by Earle H. Waugh Pdf

Founded in the sixteenth century, the Demirdashiya Sufi order in Cairo has played an influential role in Egypt's public life, and through a line of family sheikhs has channeled the impulses of its Sufi origins into different types of reform. Practicing a visionary form of piety, the Demirdashiya-- once legendary for its wealth and secrecy-- continues to influence a small but important segment of contemporary Cairo's inhabitants. In this fascinating study, scholar Earle Waugh highlights the Demirdashiya's sophisticated and complex relationship with both politics and Islamic culture. As part of his research, Waugh attended the order's liturgies-- the dhikrs (remembrance) and khalwa (retreat)-- normally closed to outsiders. During an annual khalwa, the adept silently meditates for three days in his own cell. More than giving up human discourse, the mandated silence is a reordering of sensitivities to the divine, and a path to insight into the many ways that God conveys Himself to humans. Examining the role of the Demirdashiya in Egypt's history as well as its visionary piety, Visionaries of Silence explores the dialectic between reform and vision in a stable Sufi order. It also probes how these competing ideals were incorporated into the physical world of the zawiya, mosque, and living quarters, and the extension of its influence in Europe through its most famous daughter, Qut al-Qulub, noted visionary author and mother of the order's current sheikh.

Author : John Curry,Erik Ohlander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136659058

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Sufism and Society by John Curry,Erik Ohlander Pdf

This book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in the later medieval and early modern Islamic world. Thematically organized, it includes case studies drawn from the Middle Eastern, Turkic, Persian and South Asian regions. It looks to reconceptualize the study of Sufism during an under-researched period of its history.

Author : Dina Le Gall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791484258

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A Culture of Sufism by Dina Le Gall Pdf

A Culture of Sufism opens a window to a new understanding of one of the most prolific and enduring of all the Sufi brotherhoods, the Naqshbandiyya, as it spread from its birthplace in central Asia to Iran, Anatolia, Arabia, and the Balkans between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on original sources and carefully aware of the power of modern paradigms to obscure, Le Gall portrays a Naqshbandiyya that was devotionally sober yet not demysticized and rigorously orthodox without being politically activist. She argues that the establishment of this brotherhood in Ottoman society was not the product of political instrumentality. Instead the Naqshbandī dissemination is best explained in reference to a series of little-appreciated organizational and cultural modes such as proclivity to long-distance travel, independence from specialized Sufi institutions, linguistic adaptability, commitment to writing and copying, and the practice of bequeathing spiritual authority to non-kin.

Author : Michael Winter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134975143

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Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1798 by Michael Winter Pdf

First study to cover the whole of this period and focus on both social change and cultural/religious life The period is crucial to understanding modern Egyptian consciousness Author uses primary sources, not available anywhere else

Author : Elizabeth Sirriyeh
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sufis
ISBN : 0415341655

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Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus by Elizabeth Sirriyeh Pdf

'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641 to1731) was the most outstanding scholarly Sufi of Ottoman Syria. He was regarded as the leading religious poet of his time and as an excellent commentator of classical Sufi texts. At the popular level, he has been read as an interpreter of symbolic dreams. Moreover, he played a crucial role in the transmission of the teachings of the Naqshabandiyya in the Ottoman Empire, and he contributed to the eighteenth-century Sufi revival via his disciples. This pioneering book analyzes important aspects of al-Nabulusi's work and places him in the historical context.

Author : Valerie J. Hoffman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781643364209

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Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt by Valerie J. Hoffman Pdf

For centuries Sufism—Islamic mysticism—held a major place in Islamic spirituality, intellectual life, and popular religion. While many scholars have commented on Sufism's decline, few have delved deeply into present-day Egyptian Sufism or considered it as a system in its own right. Drawing on her detailed fieldwork and a variety of little known literary sources, Valerie J. Hoffman presents Sufism as it exists in Egypt today, in the vivid experiences of its adherents. With an array of conclusions that overturn widely held beliefs about modern Sufis, Hoffman argues that the apparent assimilation of Egyptian Sufism masks a thriving movement hidden from the Western world. From her experiences as a quasi disciple of a Sufi master, she offers new insights into the movement's evolution, the vital role of women in Sufism, and Sufi perspectives on gender and sexuality.

Author : J. Spencer Trimingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198028239

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The Sufi Orders in Islam by J. Spencer Trimingham Pdf

Sufism, the name given to Islamic mysticism, has been the subject of many studies, but the orders through which the organizational aspect of the Sufi spirit was expressed has been neglected. The Sufi Orders in Islam is one of the earliest modern examinations of the historical development of Sufism and is considered a classic work in numerous sources of Islamic studies today. Here, author J. Spencer Trimingham offers a clear and detailed account of the formation and development of the Sufi schools and orders (tariqahs) from the second century of Islam until modern times. Trimingham focuses on the practical disciplines behind the mystical aspects of Sufism which initially attracted a Western audience. He shows how Sufism developed and changed, traces its relationship to the unfolding and spread of mystical ideas, and describes in sharp detail its rituals and ceremonial practices. Finally, he assesses the influence of these Sufi orders upon Islamic society in general. John O. Voll has added a new introduction to this classic text and provides readers with an updated list of further reading. The Sufi Orders in Islam will appeal not only to those already familiar with Triminghams groundbreaking research, but also to the growing reading public of Islamic studies and mysticism.

Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004493117

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Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule by Doris Behrens-Abouseif Pdf

Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule deals with the impact of the Ottoman conquest of Egypt on its political, religious and social institutions, their transition from the Mamluk to the Ottoman regime and further development up to the 17th century. The relationship between the Ottoman ruling establishment, the local religious groups and the military aristocracy is discussed in the first part of the volume. Waqf documents are a major source for this study which, in the second part, analyzes and compares the endowments of the Ottoman governors and those of the military aristocracy and their respective impact on the urban development and architecture of Cairo in this period. The architecture is documented with 70 photographs and figures. By integrating architecture and urbanism in the historical analysis of the period under study, this book is important for historians and art historians of Egypt.