Scholars, saints, and sufis
Subtitle: Muslim religious institutions in the Middle East since 1500
By: edited by Nikki R. Keddie.
Contributors: Keddie, Nikki R.. ed.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Ulama.; Scholars, Muslim.; Sufism.; Shiites.; Muslim women -- Religious life.; Islam -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Nikki R. Keddie; title: Some observations on the development of the Ottoman learned hierarchy / Richard Repp; title: The Ottoman ulema and the tanzimat / Richard L. Chambers; title: The religious establishment in Husainid Tunisia / Leon Carl Brown; title: The Moroccan ulama, 1860-1912: an introduction / Edmund Burke; title: Profile of a nineteenth-century Moroccan scholar / Kenneth Brown; title: The ulama of Cairo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Afaf Lutfi Al-sayyid Marsot; title: Nonideological responses of the Egyptian ulama to modernization / Daniel Crecelius; title: The roots of the ulama's power in modern Iran / Nikki R. Keddie; title: The oppositional role of the ulama in twentieth-century Iran / Hamid Algar; title: Activism of the ulama in Pakistan / Aziz Ahmad; title: A short history of the Khalwati order of dervishes / B.G. Martin; title: Doctor and saint / Ernest Gellner; title: The Hamadsha / Vincent Crapanzano; title: Religious symbolism and social change: the drama of Husain / Gustav Thaiss; title: Mahdis, Walis, and new men in the Sudan / John Voll; title: Variation in religious observance among Islamic women / Robert A. Fernea & Elizabeth W. Fernea.