Sufism and Society: Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200-1800

ISBN-13: 9781138789357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 282 str.

John Curry; Erik Ohlander

Opis

In recent years, many historians of Islamic mysticism have been grappling in sophisticated ways with the difficulties of essentialism. Reconceptualising the study of Islamic mysticism during an under-researched period of its history, this book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in the Muslim world, from the fall of the Abbasid caliphate to the heyday of the great Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid empires. Treating a heretofore under-researched period in the history of Sufism, this work establishes previously unimagined trajectories for the study of mystical movements as social actors of real historical consequence. Thematically organized, the book includes case studies drawn from the Middle Eastern, Turkic, Persian and South Asian regions by a group of scholars whose collective expertise ranges widely across different historical, geographical, and linguistic landscapes. Chapters theorise why, how, and to what ends we might reconceptualise some of the basic methodologies, assumptions, categories of thought, and interpretative paradigms which have heretofore shaped treatments of Islamic mysticism and its role in the social, cultural and political history of pre-modern Muslim societies. Proposing novel and revisionist treatments of the subject based on the examination of many under-utilized sources, the book draws on a number of disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches, from art history to religious studies. As such, it will appeal to students and scholars of Middle East studies, religious history, Islamic studies and Sufism.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Historiography  1. Intersections between Sufism and Power: Narrating the Shaykhs and Sultans of Northern India, 1200–1400  2. Mecca Real and Imagined: Texts, Transregional Networks and the Curious Case of Bahā' al-Dīn Zakariyyā of Multan  3. Hagiography, Court Records, and Early Modern Sufi Brotherhoods: Shaykh Khālid and Social Movement Theory  Part II: Landscapes  4. Mystical Authority and Governmentality in Medieval Islam  5. Writing Down the Feats and Setting up the Scene: Hagiographers and Architectural Patrons in the Age of Empires  6. Between Patron and Piety: Jahān Ārā Begam’s Sufi Affiliations and Articulations in Seventeenth-century Mughal India  Part III: Praxis  7. Between Center and Periphery: The Development of the Sufi Fatwa in Late-Medieval Egypt  8. Inventing a Sufi Tradition: The Use of the Futuwwa Ritual Gathering as a Model for the Qizilbash Djem  9. İsmā'īl Rusūhī Ankaravī: An Early Mevlevi Intervention into the Emerging Kadızadeli-Sufi Conflict  Part IV: Negotiations  10. Banishment, Persecution and Incarceration: İbrāhīm-i Gülşeni’s Years as a Subversive Force During the Final Years of the Mamluk Sultanate, ca. 1507–1517  11. "The Meeting of the Two Sultans:" Three Sufi Mystics Negotiate with the Court of Murād III  12. In the Dream Realm of a Sixteenth-century Ottoman Biographer: Taşköprizade and the Sufi Shaykhs