Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic near East

Name: Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic near East
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ISBN: 9780295981260

ISBN-10: 0295981261

ISBN-13: 9780295981260

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jonathan P. Berkey

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Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Middle East. Jonathan Berkey's book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, sermons, and tales - but especially on a number of medieval treatises critical of popular preachers, and also a vigorous defence of them which emerged in fourteenth-century Egyptian Sufi circles. Popular preachers drew inspiration and legitimacy from the rise of Sufi mysticism, with its emphasis on internal spiritual activity and direct enlightenment, enabling them to challenge or reinforce social and political…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 155
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Origins and Early Controversy



Storytelling and Preaching in the Late Middle Period



The Social and Political Context of Preaching



Storytelling, Preaching, and Knowledge



Conclusion: Storytelling, Preaching, and the Problem of Religious Authority in Medieval Islam


Notes


Works Cited


Index