Dimensions of Locality: Muslim Saints, their Place and Space (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam No. 8)

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2008

Dimensions of Locality

Muslim Saints, their Place and Space (Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam No. 8)

Edited by: Georg Stauth and Samuli Schielke

In the series Globaler lokaler Islam

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839409688

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About this book

As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a seemingly contradictory fashion - at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' shrines around the world. Sacred locality has thus become a paradigm for the relationship between the human and the transcendent, a model for urban planning, regional networks, imaginary spaces, and spiritual hierarchies alike. This importance of saintly places has, however, become increasingly complicated and troubled by reformist currents within Islam, on the one hand, and the emergence of modern archeology and anthropology, on the other. While they have often tended to posit 'the local' in opposition to 'the universal', in this volume islamologists, anthropologists, and sociologists offer new ways of thinking about the local, the place, and the conceptual landscapes and spaces of saints. In this, its eighth volume, the Yearbook for the Sociology of Islam looks at different sites and regions around the Muslim world (notably Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Southeast Asia) not as 'localized' versions of a universal Islam, but as constitutive of one particular outlook of the universalizing order of a world religion.

Author / Editor information

Georg Stauth (Prof. Dr.) teaches Sociology of Islam at the University of Bielefeld.
Samuli Schielke (Dr. phil.) is a Fellow at ISIM, Leiden.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	7
Part 1: Conceptual Spaces
Chapter 1. Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis Pnina Werbner Open Access Download PDF	25
Chapter 2. (Re)Imagining Space: Dreams and Saint Shrines in Egypt Amira Mittermaier Open Access Download PDF	47
Chapter 3. Remixing Songs, Remaking MULIDS: The Merging Spaces of Dance Music and Saint Festivals in Egypt Open Access Download PDF	67
Chapter 4. Notes on Locality, Connectedness, and Saintliness Armando Salvatore Open Access Download PDF	89
Part 2: Contested Places
Chapter 5. Saints (awliya’), Public Places and Modernity in Egypt Ahmed A. Zayed Open Access Download PDF	103
Chapter 6. Islam on both Sides: Religion and Locality in Western Burkina Faso Katja Werthmann Open Access Download PDF	125
Chapter 7. The Making of a ‘Harari’ City in Ethiopia: Constructing and Contesting Saintly Places in Harar Patrick Desplat Open Access Download PDF	149
Chapter 8. Merchants and Mujahidin: Beliefs about Muslim Saints and the History of Towns in Egypt Souzan El Saied Yousef Mosa Open Access Download PDF	169
Abstracts Open Access Download PDF	183
On the Authors and Editors of the Yearbook Open Access Download PDF	189
Backmatter Open Access Download PDF	191

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Keywords: Islamic Shrines; Egypt; Ethiopia; South-East Asia; Burkina Faso; Islam; Space; Islamic Studies; Sociology of Religion; Religious Studies; Sociology

eBook

Published: September 27, 2015
ISBN: 9783839409688