The birth of the prophet Muḥammad : devotional piety in Sunni Islam / Marion Holmes Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Marion Holmes, 1967-

Series:

Culture and civilisation in the Middle East ; 11.

Culture and civilisation in the Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mawlid al-Nabī.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.

Muḥammad.

Physical Description:

viii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

In the medieval period, the birth of the Prophet Muhammad (the mawlid) was celebrated in popular narratives and ceremonies that expressed the religious agendas and aspirations of ordinary Muslims, including women. This book examines the Mawlid from its origins to the present day and provides a new insight into how an aspect of everyday Islamic piety has been transformed by modernity. The book gives a window into the religious lives of medieval Muslim women, rather than focusing on the limitations that were placed on them and shows how medieval popular Islam was coherent and meaningful, not just a set of deviations from scholarly norms. Concise in both historical and textual analysis, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary Muslim devotional practices and will be of great interest to postgraduate students and researchers of Islam, religious studies and medieval studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [220]-270) and index.

ISBN:

9780415771276

0415771277

9780203962145

0203962141

OCLC:

73742863