The piety of learning : Islamic studies in honor of Stefan Reichmuth / edited by Michael Kemper, Ralf Elger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kemper, Michael, editor.

Elger, Ralf, editor.

Series:

Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 147.

Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Text, 0929-2403 ; Volume 147

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic learning and scholarship.

Islamic civilization.

Islamic learning and scholarship--Middle East.

Islamic learning and scholarship--Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present. Senior scholars discuss Islamic teaching philosophies since the 18th century in Nigeria, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, Russia, and Germany. Particular attention is paid to the power of Islamic poetry and to networks and practices of the Tijāniyya, Rifā‘iyya, Khalwatiyya, Naqshbandiyya, and Shādhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods. The final section highlights some unusual European encounters with Islam, and features a German Pietist who traveled through the Ottoman Empire, a Habsburg officer who converted to Islam in Bosnia, a Dutch colonial Islamologist who befriended a Salafi from Jeddah, and a Soviet historian who preserved Islamic manuscripts. Contributors are: Razaq ‘Deremi Abubakre; Bekim Agai; Rainer Brunner; Alfrid K. Bustanov; Thomas Eich; Ralf Elger; Ulrike Freitag; Michael Kemper; Markus Koller; Anke von Kügelgen; Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; Armina Omerika; Amidu Olalekan Sanni; Yaşar Sarikaya; Rüdiger Seesemann; Shamil Sh. Shikhaliev; Diliara M. Usmanova.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: The Piety of Learning / Michael Kemper and Ralf Elger

ʿIlm and Adab Revisited: Knowledge Transmission and Character Formation in Islamic Africa / Rüdiger Seesemann

From the Intellectual Powerhouse of Ilorin (Nigeria): Elegy in the Work of Adam ʿAbdallāh al-Ilūrī (1917–1992) / Amidu Olalekan Sanni

The Khādimīs of Konya: The Rise of a Scholarly Family from the Ottoman Periphery / Yaşar Sarıkaya

Moral Education in Central Asia, 19th–21st Centuries: The Foundations for Sufi, Jadīd, Soviet, National, and Islamist Ethics / Anke von Kügelgen

The Small World of Aḥmad al-Ṣāwī (1761–1825), an Egyptian Khalwatī Shaykh / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

Abū l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī and Ḥadīth / Thomas Eich

Sayfallāh-Qāḍī Bashlarov: Sufi Networks between the North Caucasus and the Volga-Urals / Shamil Shikhaliev and Michael Kemper

Against Leviathan: On the Ethics of Islamic Poetry in Soviet Russia / Alfrid K. Bustanov

Blessing and Curse in the “Promised Land”: Jonas Korte’s Travels in the Ottoman Empire, 1737–1739 / Ralf Elger

Ömer Pasha Latas and the Ottoman Reform Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1850–1851) / Markus Koller

The Pilgrim’s Tale as a Means of Self-Promotion: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā’s Journey to the Ḥijāz (1916) / Rainer Brunner

Scholarly Exchange and Trade: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Naṣīf and His Letters to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje / Ulrike Freitag

Rescuing the Tatar Muslim Heritage in the Soviet Union: The Expedition Diaries of Mirkasym A. Usmanov / Diliara M. Usmanova

Islamic Theological Studies in Germany: A Discipline in the Making / Bekim Agai and Armina Omerika

Stefan Reichmuth’s Wanderings in Arabicized and Islamized Yorubaland / Razaq ‘Deremi Abubakre

Bibliography of Printed Works

Index of Personal Names

Index of Place Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34984-7

OCLC:

987282823

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004349841 DOI