Arin Salamah-Qudsi

Sufism and Early Islamic Piety

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores aspects of the private lives and interpersonal ties, between the personal and communal domains of early Sufis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781108422710
• ISBN-10: 1108422713
• Artikelnr.: 51387153

Autorenporträt

Arin Shawkat Salamah-Qudsi is a lecturer of Sufi and Islamic studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research focuses on Medieval Sufi literature and doctrines, the role and position of women in early Sufism, Sufi autobiographies, and Sufism and society in early medieval Islam. In 2011, Dr Salamah-Qudsi obtained Ma'uf fellowship for Outstanding Arab Lecturers, the Council of Higher Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Personal Narratives: Early Sufis and Family Ties: 1. Celibacy, marriage and familial commitments among early Sufis
2. Female Sufis
3. Maternal narratives: female Sufis as mothers
4. Sufis as maternal uncles
Part II. Communal Narratives: Early Sufis' Modes of Operating in the Framework of Sufi Communal Lives: 5. Consensually acclaimed Sufis and lenient approaches
6. Marginal piety: the case of Niffari
7. Controversies and quarrel
8. Companionship with youth (Suhbat al-Ahdath).