Popular preaching and religious authority in the medieval Islamic Near East / Jonathan P. Berkey.

By:

Berkey, Jonathan Porter

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Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780295800981
0295800984

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Popular preaching and religious authority in the medieval Islamic Near East.DDC classification:

297.3/7/0902 22

LOC classification:

BP184.25 .B47 2001eb

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Contents:

Origins and Early Controversy -- Storytelling and Preaching in the Late Middle Period -- The Social and Political Context of Preaching -- Storytelling, Preaching, and Knowledge -- Conclusion: Storytelling, Preaching, and the Problem of Religious Authority in Medieval Islam.

Review: "Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Near East. Jonathan Berkey's book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, sermons, and tales, but especially on a number of medieval treatises critical of popular preachers, and also on a vigorous defense of them that emerged in fourteenth-century Egyptian Sufi circles."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-135) and index.

"Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Near East. Jonathan Berkey's book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, sermons, and tales, but especially on a number of medieval treatises critical of popular preachers, and also on a vigorous defense of them that emerged in fourteenth-century Egyptian Sufi circles."--Jacket.