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Scholars, saints, and sufis : Muslim religious institutions in the Middle East since 1500
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- Creator
- edited by Nikki R. Keddie
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First paperback edition
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1978
- Physical Details
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- viii, 401 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520036441, 9780520036444
- OCLC
- ocm06234015, ocm06234015
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction / Nikki R. Keddie -- Part I. Scholars : the ulama. Some observations on the development of the Ottoman learned hierarchy / Richard Repp ; The Ottoman ulema and the tanzimat / Richard L. Chambers ; The religious establishment in Husainid Tunisia / Leon Carl Brown ; The Moroccan ulama, 1860-1912 : an introduction / Edmund Burke ; Profile of a nineteenth-century Moroccan scholar / Kenneth Brown ; The ulama of Cairo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Afaf Lutfi Al-sayyid Marsot ; Nonideological responses of the Egyptian ulama to modernization / Daniel Crecelius ; The roots of the ulama's power in modern Iran / Nikki R. Keddie ; The oppositional role of the ulama in twentieth-century Iran / Hamid Algar ; Activism of the ulama in Pakistan / Aziz Ahmad -- Part II. Saints and Sufis : popular religious institutions. A short history of the Khalwati order of dervishes / B.G. Martin ; Doctor and saint / Ernest Gellner ; The Hamadsha / Vincent Crapanzano ; Religious symbolism and social change: the drama of Husain / Gustav Thaiss ; Mahdis, Walis, and new men in the Sudan / John Voll ; Variation in religious observance among Islamic women / Robert A. Fernea & Elizabeth W. Fernea