Sufism in Central Asia

New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th-21st Centuries

Devin Deweese, Jo-Ann Gross (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

358 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
9789004367876 (ISBN)

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The studies in this volume mark a new phase in the development of scholarship on Sufi traditions of Central Asia, expanding and deepening the source base, reconceptualizing basic frameworks for understanding Sufi history, and challenging received assumptions and narratives.

Sufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th-21st Centuries brings together ten original studies on historical aspects of Sufism in this region. A central question, of ongoing significance, underlies each contribution: what is the relationship between Sufism as it was manifested in this region prior to the Russian conquest and the Soviet era, on the one hand, and the features of Islamic religious life in the region during the Tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras on the other? The authors address multiple aspects of Central Asian religious life rooted in Sufism, examining interpretative strategies, realignments in Sufi communities and sources from the Russian to the post-Soviet period, and social, political and economic perspectives on Sufi communities.
Contributors include: Shahzad Bashir, Devin DeWeese, Allen Frank, Jo-Ann Gross, Kawahara Yayoi, Robert McChesney, Ashirbek Muminov, Maria Subtelny, Eren Tasar, and Waleed Ziad.

Devin DeWeese, Ph.D. (1985), Indiana University, is a Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. His publications on the religious history of Islamic Central Asia include Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde (Penn State, 1994). Jo-Ann Gross, Ph.D. (1982), New York University, is Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian History at The College of New Jersey. Her publications on Sufism and shrine culture in Islamic Central Asia include The Letters of Khwaja ʿUbayd Allah Ahrar and his Associates, co-authored with Asom Urunbaev (Brill, 2002).

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Devin DeWeese and Jo-Ann Gross

1 Re-Envisioning the History of Sufi Communities in Central Asia: Continuity and Adaptation in Sources and Social Frameworks, 16th–20th Centuries

Devin DeWeese

2 Naqshband’s Lives: Sufi Hagiography between Manuscripts and Genre

Devin DeWeese

3 The Works of Ḥusayn Vāʿiẓ Kāshifī as a Source for the Study of Sufism in Late 15th- and Early 16th-Century Central Asia

Maria E. Subtelny

4 Ḥażrat Jīo Ṣāḥib: How Durrānī Peshawar Helped Revive Bukhara’s Sanctity

Waleed Ziad

5 Valī Khān Tūra: A Makhdūmzāda Leader in Marghīnān during the Collapse of the Khanate of Khoqand

Kawahara Yayoi

6 Reliquary Sufism: Sacred Fiber in Afghanistan

R. D. McChesney

7 Sufism in the Face of Twentieth-Century Reformist Critiques: Three Responses from Sufi Imāms in the Volga-Ural Region

Allen J. Frank

8 Sufism on the Soviet Stage: Holy People and Places in Central Asia’s Socio-Political Landscape after World War II

Eren Tasar

9 Sufi Groups in Contemporary Kazakhstan: Competition and Connections with Kazakh Islamic Society

Ashirbek Muminov

10 The Biographical Tradition of Muḥammad Bashārā: Sanctification and Legitimation in Tajikistan

Jo-Ann Gross

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Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies ; 25
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	701 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9789004367876 / 9789004367876
Zustand	Neuware