Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15809-2
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 665 g

Reihe: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture

A study of religious thought and practice across a broad social spectrum, but within a well-defined historical context, this book is an interdisciplinary endeavor that incorporates the tools of philology, social-history and historical-anthropology. Focusing on the mosques, public assemblies, cemeteries and shrines of Syrian Muslims in the period of the crusades and the anti-Frankish jihad, the book describes and deciphers religious rites and experiences, liturgical calendars, spiritual leadership, and perceptions of impiety and dissent. Working from a perspective that breaks down the dichotomization of religion into 'official' and 'popular,' it exposes the negotiation, construction and dissemination of hybrid forms of religious life. The result is an intimate and complex presentation of the texture of medieval Islamic piety.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talmon-Heller, Daniella J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ph.D. (1999), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She co-authored the Israeli Open University "Introduction to Islam," and published a number of articles on the religious and social history of medieval Syria.