Saints Hommes de Chiraz Et Du Fārs

Pouvoir, Société Et Lieux de Sacralité (Xe-Xve S.)
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54273-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 990 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Iran Studies

In Saints hommes de Chiraz et du Fars. Pouvoir, société et lieux de sacralité (Xe-XVe s.), Denise Aigle studies the spiritual role, but also the political one, played by the Sufi shaykhs. From the tenth century, Fars was a a land of holiness with Shaykh Kabir in Shiraz and Murshid al-Din Abu Ishaq in Kazarun. This research is based on hagiographic sources, historical chronicles, literary sources and archival documents. The author shows how the pre-Islamic history of Fars was integrated into spiritual Islam thanks to the mystical speculations of the Sufi shaykhs. The particular interest of this research is its contribution to the history of Laristan, a region that has long remained terra incognita. Thanks to handwritten hagiographic documents preserved in several private libraries, we discover the existence and the role of spiritual masters until now totally unknown.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aigle, Denise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Über Autor(innen)

Denise Aigle, emeritus professor at EPHE, is a specialist in history and Sufism in Iran. She has published monographs, collective works and numerous articles, including The Mongol Empire Between Myth and Reality (Brill, 2015, Saidi-Sirjani Prize 2016) and Moses in Persian Mystical Texts (Tehran, 2021).