Birth of the Prophet Muhammad Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam

Name: Birth of the Prophet Muhammad Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam
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ISBN: 9780415771276

ISBN-10: 0415771277

ISBN-13: 9780415771276

Edition: 2007

Authors: Marion Holmes Katz

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Book details

List price: $190.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.49" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The emergence of mawlid narratives


An archaeology of mawlid narratives


Formal mawlid texts


Conclusion



Gifts and reciprocity in the celebration of the mawlid


Mawlid banquets


Pious utterances and the generation of merit


The exchange of merit and the economy of salvation


Conclusion



Emotion, law, and the celebration of the mawlid


Joy


Love


The salvific value of personal relationships


Standing as an expression of emotion


Conclusion



Time and merit in the celebration of the mawlid


The night of the mawlid and laylat al-qadr


Special times and their uses


Homogeneous and non-homogeneous time


Conclusion



Mawlids under attack


Wahhabi opposition


Modernist critiques


New rationales for the celebration of the mawlid


The marginalization of the mawlid in the late-twentieth century


The eclipse of the devotionalist model


Conclusion


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index