Popular preaching and religious authority in the medieval Islamic Near East / Jonathan P. Berkey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berkey, Jonathan Porter.

Series:

Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.

Publications on the Near East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic preaching.

Storytelling--Religious aspects--Islam.

Storytelling.

Islamic civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 143 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Near East. Jonathan Berkey's book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, sermons, and tales, but especially on a number of medieval treatises critical of popular preachers, and also on a vigorous defense of them that emerged in fourteenth-century Egyptian Sufi circles."--Jacket

Contents:

Contents Preface Introduction Origins and Early Controversy Storytelling and Preaching in the Late Middle Period The Social and Political Context of Preaching Storytelling, Preaching, and Knowledge Conclusion: Storytelling, Preaching and the Problem of Religious Authority in Medieval Islam Notes Works Cited Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780295800981

0295800984

OCLC:

774403190