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Sufism in Ottoman Egypt - Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
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Sufism in Ottoman Egypt - Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Sufi Series
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This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt,
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the
cultural, socio-economic and political backdrop against which
Sufism gained prominence, it looks at its influence in both the
institutions for religious learning and popular piety. The study
seeks to broaden the observed space of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt by
placing it within its imperial and international context,
highlighting on one hand the specificities of Egyptian Sufism, and
on the other the links that it maintained with other spiritual
traditions that influenced it. Studying Sufism as a global
phenomenon, taking into account its religious, cultural, social and
political dimensions, this book also focuses on the education of
the increasing number of aspirants on the Sufi path, as well as on
the social and political role of the Sufi masters in a period of
constant and often violent political upheaval. It ultimately argues
that, starting in medieval times, Egypt was simultaneously
attracting foreign scholars inward and transmitting ideas outward,
but these exchanges intensified during the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries as a result of the new imperial context in
which the country and its people found themselves. Hence, this book
demonstrates that the concept of 'neosufism' should be dispensed
with and that the Ottoman period in no way constituted a time of
decline for religious culture, or the beginning of a normative and
fundamentalist Islam. Sufism in Ottoman Egypt provides a valuable
contribution to the new historiographical approach to the period,
challenging the prevailing teleology. As such, it will prove useful
to students and scholars of Islam, Sufism and religious history, as
well as Middle Eastern history more generally.
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