Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam / / ed. by Grace Martin Smith, Carl W. Ernst.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bowen, John R.,; Clancy-Smith, Julia,; Daneshvari, Abbas,; During, Jean,; Edwards, David B.,; Ernst, Carl W.,; Ewing, Katherine P.,; Faroqhi, Suraiya,; Homerin, Th. Emil,; Inalcik, Halil,; Markoff, Irene,; Martin, B. G.,; Martin, Bradford G.,; Ocak, A. Yaşar,; Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt,; Smith, Grace Martin,; Wade, Bonnie,; Waugh, Earle H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ernst, Carl W.,; Smith, Grace Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Part One. Veneration of the Saints --; GRAVES, SHRINES AND POWER IN A HIGHLAND SUMATRAN SOCIETY --; THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE DRAGON IN THE CULT OF THE SAINTS OF ISLAM --; THE SACRED MUSIC OF THE AHL-IHAQQ AS A MEANS OF MYSTICAL TRANSMISSION --; AN INDO-PERSIAN GUIDE TO SUFI SHRINE PILGRIMAGE --; THE MODERN BUSINESSMAN AND THE PAKISTANI SAINT: THE INTERPENETRATION OF WORLDS --; 'UMAR LBN AL-FARID, A SAINT OF MAMLUK AND OTTOMAN EGYPT --; MUSIC, SAINTS, AND RITUAL: SAM A' AND THE ALEVIS OF TURKEY --; SAMA' IN THE ROYAL COURT OF SAINTS: THE CHISHTIYYA OF SOUTH ASIA --; REFLECTIONS ON THE INTERACTION OF SAINT AND SINGER IN EGYPTIAN DHIKR --; Part Two. Saints and the Political Order --; THE MAN WITH TWO TOMBS: MUHAMMAD IBN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN, FOUNDER OF THE ALGERIAN RAHMANIYYA, CA. 1715-1798 --; THE POLITICAL LIVES OF AFGHAN SAINTS: THE CASE OF THE KABUL HAZRATS --; SAINTHOOD AS MEANS OF SELF-DEFENSE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN ANATOLIA --; DERVISH AND SULTAN: AN ANALYSIS OF THE OTMAN BAB A VILAYETNAMESI --; SHAYKH UWAYS BIN MUHAMMAD AL-BARAWI. A TRADITIONAL SOMALI SUFI --; KALENDERI DERVISHES AND OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION FROM THE FOURTEENTH TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURIES --; Glossary and Index of Terms --; INDEX OF SUBJECTS --; INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES --; CONTRIBUTORS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463233709; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463233709
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Grace Martin Smith, Carl W. Ernst.

This collection of papers by various scholars discusses a wide range of practices and beliefs relating to saints in Islam. The studies also demonstrate the influence of sainthood on political structures in many societies.