Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents a systematic history of Moroccan Sufism through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries C.E. and a comprehensive study of Moroccan Sufi doctrine, focusing on the concept of sainthood.
Trade ReviewThis highly original study explicates brilliantly the doctrinal and metaphysical aspects of premodern Moroccan Sufism and provides a thorough sociological analysis of the cult of saints. -- Choice
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Transliteration of Foreign Terms
- Introduction. Morocco and the Problem of Sainthood in Islamic Studies
- Part I. Sainthood and Authority in Morocco: The Origins and Development of a Paradigm
- Chapter One. Sainthood in an Urban Context: Sulaha', 'Scholars, and "Anchors of the Earth"
- Chapter Two. Arbiters of the Holy in the Countryside: Rural Legists, Spiritual Masters, and Murabitun
- Chapter Three. Knowledge, Power, and Authority in Monographic Biography
- Chapter Four. Qualifying the Ineffable: Sainthood in the Hagiographical Anthology
- Part II. The Paradigm Institutionalized
- Chapter Five. Moroccan Sufism in the Marinid Period
- Chapter Six. An Emplotment of a Paradigmatic Saint: The Career of Muhammad ibn Sulaymán al Jazuli
- Chapter Seven. The Ideology of Paradigmatic Sainthood: The Jazfilite Doctrine of the "Muhammadan Way"
- Chapter Eight. Paradigmatic Sainthood in the Material World: The Jazuliyya and the Rise of the Sharifian State
- Conclusion. Power and Authority in Moroccan Sainthood
- Notes
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
