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

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 tha...

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1. Verfasser: Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine
Weitere Verfasser: Clement, Colin
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press, 2019.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Description based upon print version of record.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (176 p.)
ISBN:161797952X
9781617979521

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