Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes : Emplacements of Spiritual Power across Time and Place

Ephrat, Daphna (EDT)/ Wolper, Ethel Sara (EDT)/ Pinto, Paulo G. (EDT)

Brill（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 538 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004729643
• DDC分類 297.4

Full Description

Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes explores the creation, expansion, and perpetuation of the material and imaginary spheres of spiritual domination and sanctity that surrounded Sufi saints and became central to religious authority, Islamic piety, and the belief in the miraculous.

The cultural and social constructs of Islamic sainthood and the spatial inscription of saintly figures have fascinated and ignited scholars across a range of disciplines. By bringing together a broad scope of perspectives and case studies, this book offers the reader the first comprehensive, albeit variegated, exposition of the evolution of saintly spheres and the emplacements of spiritual power in the Muslim world across time and place.

Contributors: Angela Andersen, Irit Back, Devin DeWeese, Daphna Ephrat, Jo-Ann Gross, Nathan Hofer, Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Sara Kuehn, Bulle Tuil Leonetti, Silvia Montenegro, Alexandre Papas, Paulo G. Pinto, Fatima Quraishi, Eric Ross, Itzchak Weismann, Pnina Werber, and Ethel Sara Wolper.

Contents

List of Figures and Maps

A Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translation

Introduction

PART 1: Creation and Revitalization

1 The Creation of Spheres of Spiritual Domination and Sanctity in Medieval Syrian Landscapes: Hagiographical Narratives and Historical Legacies

 Daphna Ephrat

2 The Creation and Institutionalization of the Sufi Landscape in Medieval Upper Egypt

 Nathan Hofer

3 The Cult of Saints and Shrine Architecture: The Making of Funeral Centers of Devotion in the Medieval Muslim West

 Bulle Tuil Leonetti

4 A Saint "On the Move": Traces in the Evolution of a Landscape of Religious Memory in the Balkans

 Sara Kuehn

5 The "Shrinescapes" and Narrative Traditions of Khoja Ishaq Khuttalani

 Jo-Ann Gross

6 Encountering Saints in the Hallowed Ground of a Regional Landscape: The 'Description of Khwārazm' and the Experience of Pilgrimage in Nineteenth-Century Central Asia

 Devin DeWeese

PART 2: Spatial Formation and the Power of Place

7 Sufi Buildings and Networks of Authority in Medieval Anatolia

 Ethel Sara Wolper

8 Situating Iraqi Shrine Cities within the Alevi-Bektashi Sacred Landscape: Networks of Saintly Families Linking Anatolia to Karbala and Najaf in the Ottoman Era

 Ayfer Karakaya-Stump

9 "This is Makkah for Me!" Devotion in Architecture at the Makli Necropolis

 Fatima Quraishi

10 "He who is the wondrous green dome is Ali": The Relationship between Narratives of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascension and the Communal Religious Architecture of the Alevis

 Angela Andersen

11 Bombay Mystical City: Muslim Shrines and Saints in the Urban Fabric from 1800 to Present

 Alexandre Papas

12 Senegal's Sufi Cities: Places beyond the State

 Eric Ross

PART 3: Transformation and Globalization

13 Shifting Spheres along the Hajj Route from West Africa: The Case of the Tijaniyya during the Colonial Period

 Irit Back

14 The Entire Land is My Lodge: Naqshbandi Responses to the Challenges of Modernity and Globalization

 Itzchak Weismann

15 Charisma's Reach: Spiritual Travel and Material Flows in a Sufi Saint's Wilayat

 Pnina Werbner

16 "Diasporizing" Sainthood: Shaykh Ahmed, a Syrian ʿAlawi Saint in Argentina

 Silvia Montenegro

17 Territories of Memory: Ritual and Dreams in the Making of a Contemporary Syrian Saint

 Paulo G. Pinto

Index