Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

The Mulid of Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi of Tanta

Egypt's Legendary Sufi Festival
Übersetzer: Clement, Colin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9789774168925
• ISBN-10: 9774168925
• Artikelnr.: 53541073

Autorenporträt

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
1. The Mulid of Tanta, October 2002
2. The Lives of al-Sayyid al-Badawi , between Oral and Written Tradition
3. From Saint to Mulid: The Ahmadiya Brotherhood
4. The Mulid of Tanta: From Its Origins until the Napoleonic Expedition
5. The Nineteenth Century Mulid: From Carnival to Reform
6. The Mulid of Tanta in the Twentieth Century: The Metamorphosis of the
Pilgrimage
7. Return to Tanta
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index