Full Description
The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present. Senior scholars discuss Islamic teaching philosophies since the 18th century in Nigeria, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, Russia, and Germany. Particular attention is paid to the power of Islamic poetry and to networks and practices of the Tijāniyya, Rifā'iyya, Khalwatiyya, Naqshbandiyya, and Shādhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods. The final section highlights some unusual European encounters with Islam, and features a German Pietist who traveled through the Ottoman Empire, a Habsburg officer who converted to Islam in Bosnia, a Dutch colonial Islamologist who befriended a Salafi from Jeddah, and a Soviet historian who preserved Islamic manuscripts.
Contributors are: Razaq 'Deremi Abubakre; Bekim Agai; Rainer Brunner; Alfrid K. Bustanov; Thomas Eich; Ralf Elger; Ulrike Freitag; Michael Kemper; Markus Koller; Anke von Kügelgen; Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; Armina Omerika; Amidu Olalekan Sanni; Yaşar Sarikaya; Rüdiger Seesemann; Shamil Sh. Shikhaliev; Diliara M. Usmanova.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Piety of Learning
Michael Kemper and Ralf Elger
ʿIlm, Adab, Education
1 ʿIlm and Adab Revisited: Knowledge Transmission and Character Formation in Islamic Africa
Rüdiger Seesemann
2 From the Intellectual Powerhouse of Ilorin (Nigeria): Elegy in the Work of Adam ʿAbdallāh al-Ilūrī (1917-1992)
Amidu Olalekan Sanni, assisted by Yunus Alade Salman
3 The Khādimīs of Konya: The Rise of a Scholarly Family from the Ottoman Periphery
Yaşar Sarıkaya
4 Moral Education in Central Asia, 19th-21st Centuries: The Foundations for Sufi, Jadīd, Soviet, National, and Islamist Ethics
Anke von Kügelgen
Sufi Dynamics
5 The Small World of Aḥmad al-Ṣāwī (1761-1825), an Egyptian Khalwatī Shaykh
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
6 Abū l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī and Ḥadīth
Thomas Eich
7 Sayfallāh-Qāḍī Bashlarov: Sufi Networks between the North Caucasus and the Volga-Urals
Shamil Shikhaliev and Michael Kemper
8 Against Leviathan: On the Ethics of Islamic Poetry in Soviet Russia
Alfrid K. Bustanov
Unusual Encounters with Islam
9 Blessing and Curse in the "Promised Land": Jonas Korte's Travels in the Ottoman Empire, 1737-1739
Ralf Elger
10 Ömer Pasha Latas and the Ottoman Reform Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1850-1851)
Markus Koller
11 The Pilgrim's Tale as a Means of Self-Promotion: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā's Journey to the Ḥijāz (1916)
Rainer Brunner
12 Scholarly Exchange and Trade: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Naṣīf and His Letters to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Ulrike Freitag
13 Rescuing the Tatar Muslim Heritage in the Soviet Union: The Expedition Diaries of Mirkasym A. Usmanov
Diliara M. Usmanova
14 Islamic Theological Studies in Germany: A Discipline in the Making
Bekim Agai and Armina Omerika
15 Stefan Reichmuth's Wanderings in Arabicized and Islamized Yorubaland
Razaq 'Deremi Abubakre
Bibliography of Printed Works
Index of Names
Index of Places
