Family portraits with saints : hagiography, sanctity, and family in the Muslim world / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen & Alexandre Papas (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine, editor.

Papas, Alexandre, editor.

Series:

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; 317

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic hagiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The topic of the present volume lies at the crossing of two main subjects in Islamic studies: sanctity and family. Seeking to explain the relationships between saints and society through the family institution, the book strives to enlarge the vision of the family as well as to analyse more concretely the role of saints – the patterns of the Prophet and his relatives, problems related to the hereditary transmission of charisma; the relations between the spiritual family and the physical family, or between disciples and the saint’s family; the spiritual master as father and the father as spiritual master; and the crucial role of women. Accordingly, the table of contents resembles a family portrait, and features synthetic articles as well as case studies which cover the medieval, modern and contemporary periods, throughout different parts of the Muslim world (Maghrib and Mashriq, Anatolia, Iran, India, Pakistan and Central Asia). This collective reflexion is the result of previous research done on Islamic hagiography from an anthropological or historical perspective; also, it seeks to benefit from the recent development of family history in Islam.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Le Prophète en famille

Les enfants qu’ils étaient : récits d’enfance merveilleuse dans Anbā’ nujabā’ al-abnā’ d’Ibn Zafar al-Siqillī et leur valeur comme source historique

The Prophet’s Family as the Perennial Source of Saintly Scholars: Al-Samhūdī on ʿilm and nasab

Sainthood as Patrimony: ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAydarūs (d. 1461) and his Descendants

Nasab, Baraka and Land: Hagiographic and Family Memory entwined in the Egyptian Brotherhood of Sharnūbiyya, from the Fourteenth Century until Today

Shurafāʾ and Sufis: the Qādiriyya Būdshīshiyya in Contemporary Morocco

Ahl-i Haqq Consecrated Families (khāndān)

ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qushayrī (d. 465/1072) Family Ties and Transmission in Nishapur’s Sufi Milieu during the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

“The Son is the Secret of the Father”: Rūmī, Sultān Veled and the Strategy of Family Feelings

The Saint as Ancestor in some Sufi and Ismaili Communities of the Sindhi Area

Portrait d’un saint d’Ifrīqīya dans sa famille ou l’épouse comme source pour l’hagiographe d’après al-Asrār al-jaliyya fī l-manāqib al-dahmāniyya d’al-Dabbāgh (m. 699/1300)

Women and Kinship in Medieval Moroccan Hagiography: a Study of al-Bādisī’s al-Maqsad al-sharīf (Eighth/Fourteenth Century)

The Son of his Mother: Qalandarī Celibacy and the “Destruction” of Family

Selective General Bibliography

List of Contributors

Thematic Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783112208991

3112208994

OCLC:

1197553069