Realm of the saint : power and authority in Moroccan Sufism / Vincent J. Cornell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornell, Vincent J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism--Morocco.

Sufism.

Morocco--Religious life and customs.

Morocco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [1998]

Summary:

This book presents a systematic history of Moroccan Sufism through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries C.E. and a comprehensive study of Moroccan Sufi doctrine, focusing on the concept of sainthood.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Transliteration of Foreign Terms

Introduction: Morocco and the Problem of Sainthood in Islamic Studies

Part I: Sainthood and Authority in Morocco: The Origins and Development of a Paradigm

1. Sainthood in an Urban Context: Sulahā', Scholars, and "Anchors of the Earth"

2. Arbiters of the Holy in the Countryside: Rural Legists, Spiritual Masters, and Murābitūn

3. Knowledge, Power, and Authority in Monographic Biography

4. Qualifying the Ineffable: Sainthood in the Hagiographical Anthology

Part II: The Paradigm Institutionalized

5. Moroccan Sufism in the Marinid Period

6. An Emplotment of a Paradigmatic Saint: The Career of Muhammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī

7. The Ideology of Paradigmatic Sainthood: The Jazūlite Doctrine of the "Muhammadan Way"

8. Paradigmatic Sainthood in the Material World: The Jazūliyya and the Rise of the Sharifian State

Conclusion: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sainthood

Notes

Glossary of Technical Terms

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Cornell, Vincent J. Realm of the Saint

ISBN:

9780292761155

0292761155

OCLC:

1511480136