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Title

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

Publication

Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag ; [Paris] : L'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine
• Papas, Alexandre

Description

462 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; Band 317

Uniform Title

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; Bd. 317.

Alternative Title

Hagiography, sanctity, and family in the Muslim world

Subject

• Spiritual life > Islam
• Families > Islam
• Families > Religious life
• Muslim families
• Muslims > Religious life
• Spirituality > Islam
• Muslim saints
• Islamic hagiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-454) and index.

Language (note)

• In English, with three contributions in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen & Alexandre Papas -- Holy models for family scene -- Le Prophète en famille / Denis Gril -- 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 / Avner Giladi -- The prophet's family as the perennial source of saintly scholars : al-Samhūdī on 'ilm and nasab / Kazuo Morimoto -- Sainthood as patrimony : 'Abd Allāh al-'Aydarūs (d. 1461) and his descendants / Esther Peskes -- Brotherhood and familyhood -- Nasab, Baraka, and land : hagiographic and family memory entwined in the Egyptian brotherhood of Sharnūbiyya, from the fourteenth century until today / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen -- Shurafā'and Sufis : the Qādiriyya Būdshishiyya in Contemporary Morocco / Rachida Chih -- Ahl-i haqq consecrated families (khāndān) / Mojan Membrado -- The fathers -- 'Abd al-Karīm al-Qushayri (d. 465/1072), family ties and transmission in Nishapur's sufi milieu during the tenth and eleventh centuries / Francesco Chiabotti -- "The son is the secret of the father" : Rūmi, Sultān Veled and the strategy of family feelings / Alberto Fabio Ambrosio -- The saint as ancestor in some sufi and ismaili communities of the sindhi area / Michel Boivin -- Wives, mothers, and grandmothers -- Portrait d'un saint d'Ifrīqīya dans sa famille ou l'épouse comme source pour l'hagiographe / Nelly Amri -- Women and kinship in medieval Moroccan hagiography : a study of al-Bādisī's al-Maqsad al-sharīf (eighth/fourteenth century) / Manuela Marīn -- The son of his mother : Qalandarī celibacy and the "Destruction" of family / Alexandre Papas -- Selective general bibliography -- List of contributors -- Thematic index.

ISBN

9783879974221 (pbk.)

OCLC

863141307

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library