Performing religion : actors, contexts, and texts : case studies on Islam / edited by Ines Weinrich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herbert Arnold Speiser Fund.

Weinrich, Ines, editor.

Series:

Beiruter Texte und Studien ; Bd. 122.

Beiruter Texte und Studien, 0067-4931 ; Band 122

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Rituals.

Religious life--Islam.

Religious life--Islam--Congresses.

Religious life.

Islam--Rituals--Congresses.

Islam.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

260 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Beirut : Orient-Institut ; Würzburg : Ergon Verlag in Kommission, 2016.

Contents:

List of plates

Preface

Introduction : from texts to performances / Ines Weinrich

Part I : objects, actions, and notions in the context of blessing

Antique phallic symbol or mobile relic? : Remarks on the cult of the qubaʻ in Hạdṛamawt / Marianus Hundhammer

Shared rituals through ziyārāt in Lebanon : a typology of Christian and Muslim practices / Now Farra-Haddad

Conforming to and breaking with social norms : two contrary modes of baraka / Gebhard Fartacek, Lorenz Nigst

The quest for Sufi Transmissions as links to the prophet : Murtadạ̄ al-Zabīdī (d. 1791) and his Encyclopedic Collections of Sufi salāsil / Stefan Reichmuth

Part II : the staging and performance of texts

Between Poem and Ritual : the burda by al-Būsị̄rī (d. 1294-1297) / Ines Weinrich

A "Deserted site of display" : performing the crafts' risāla in pre-socialist Central Asia / Jeanine Elif Dağyeli

Woe, a hundred woes! : 19 ...-Century Muhạrram Elegies in Iran as performative poetry / Roxane Haag-Higuchi

Preaching performances revisited : the narrative restaging of sermons in the travelogue of Ibn Jubayr (d. 1217) / Sabine Dorpmüller

Everyday Islamic practice in modern Egyptian literature / Susanne Enderwitz

Part III : negotiating meaning, aesthetics, and identity

The open ritual : indeterminacy in a modern Sufi Ceremony / Jan Scholz, Max Stille

Essentializing difference : text, knowledge, and ritual performance in a Sufi Brotherhood in Italy / Paola Abenante

Burning with love : consumerism and recent trends in Islamic music in Turkey / Songul Karahasanoğlu

The authors

Plates

Index.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herbert Arnold Speiser Fund.

ISBN:

9783956502354

3956502353

OCLC:

973875604

Publisher Number:

99977344074

9783956502354