The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta : Egypt's Legendary Sufi Festival.
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Author / Creator: | Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine. |
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Imprint: | La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. |
Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12651546 |
Other authors / contributors: | Clement, Colin. |
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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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