Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East (Publications on the Near East, University of Washington)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780295981260
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; Asian studies; Islam; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Islamic History; Islamic Theology; Religion; Religion - World Religions; History: World; ASIA; Middle East; Islam - History; Medieval; Middle East - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Islam - Sufi; Civilization, Islamic; Islamic preaching; Religious aspects; Storytelling
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.