The Mulid of Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi of Tanta
Egypt's Legendary Sufi Festival
- Traduttore:
- Clement, Colin
- EAN:
9789774168925
- ISBN:
9774168925
- Pagine:
- 232
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione The Mulid of Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi of Tanta
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 fervor.
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