The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta
Every year, in Tanta, in the heart of the Nile Delta, a festival takes place that was for centuries the biggest in the Muslim world: the mulid of al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawi, a much-loved saint who cures the impotent and renders barren women fertile. This study tells the history of a Sufi festival that for long overshadowed even the pilgrimage to Mecca. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen shows that the mulid does not stand in opposition to religious orthodoxy, but rather acts as a mirror to Egyptian Islam, uniting ordinary believers, peasants, ulama, and heads of Sufi brotherhoods in a shared spiritual fervor.
| Autor: | Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine |
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| ISBN: | 9789774168925 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.07.2019 |
| Untertitel: | Egypt's Legendary Sufi Festival |
| Schlagworte: | HISTORY / Social History History of Religion Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies RELIGION / Cults RELIGION / Islam / Sufi RELIGION / Paganism & Neo-Paganism Regional & national history SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion Social & cultural history Sufism & Islamic Mysticism |
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is professor of history at Sorbonne University, where she teaches on early modern and modern Islam. She is the author or co-editor of several books on Sufism and Islam, including Ethics and Spirituality in Islam: Sufi adab (co-edited with Francesco Chiabotti et al., 2016).