Nathan Hofer

Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A social, political and religious history of Sufism in Medieval Egypt

After the fall of the Fatimid Empire in 1171 and the emergence of a new Sunni polity under the Ayyubids, Sufism came to extraordinary prominence in Egypt. The state founded and funded hospices to attract foreign Sufis to Egypt; local charismatic Sufi masters appeared throughout Upper and Lower Egypt; organised Sufi brotherhoods emerged in the urban centres of Cairo and Alexandria; and even Jews took up the doctrines and practices of the Sufis. By the middle of the Mamluk period in the 14th century, Sufism had become massively popular. How and why did this popularisation happen? This book is the first to address this issue directly, surveying the social formation and histories of several different Sufi collectivities from this period. Arguing that the popularisation of Sufism during this time was the direct result of deliberate and variegated Sufi programs of outreach, strategies of legitimation and performances of authority across Egypt, these programs, strategies and performances are situated within the social and political contexts of the institutionalisation of Sufism, audience participation, and Ayyubid and Mamluk state policies.

Key Features

• Offers a wide-ranging description of the variegated social landscape of Sufism in Ayyubid and early Mamluk Egypt
• Presents a new theoretical model to describe the institutionalisation and popularisation of Sufism
• Case studies of three different groups of Sufis in medieval Egypt track this institutionalisation and popularisation
• A heuristic framework connects Sufism to larger social and political trends in medieval Egypt

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748694228
• Artikelnr.: 44756227

Autorenporträt

Nathan Hofer received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently Assistant Professor of Islam in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. His research is broadly concerned with the social history of Sufism in the central Islamic lands, with a particular emphasis on exploring the relationship between social formation and textual production.