The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta : Egypt's Legendary Sufi Festival.

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Author / Creator:	Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine.
Imprint:	La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource (176 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Egypt -- Ṭanṭā. Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages. Egypt -- Ṭanṭā
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12651546

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Other authors / contributors:	Clement, Colin.
ISBN:	161797952X 9781617979521
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record.
Summary:	Every year, in Tanta, in the heart of the Nile Delta, a festival takes place that was for centuries the biggest in the Muslim world: the mulid of al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawi, a much-loved saint who cures the impotent and renders barren women fertile. This study tells the history of a Sufi festival that for long overshadowed even the pilgrimage to Mecca. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen shows that the mulid does not stand in opposition to religious orthodoxy, but rather acts as a mirror to Egyptian Islam, uniting ordinary believers, peasants, ulama, and heads of Sufi brotherhoods in a shared spiritual fer.
Other form:	Print version: Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta : Egypt's Legendary Sufi Festival La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press,c2019 9789774168925

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