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The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam
Volume 3, Prophetic Piety: Individual and Collective Manifestations
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This third collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the expressions of piety and devotion to the person of the Prophet and their individual and collective significance in early modern and modern times. The authors provide a rich collection of regional case studies on how the Prophet’s presence and aura are individually and collectively evoked in dreams, visions, and prayers, in the performance of poetry in his praise, in the devotion to relics related to him, and in the celebration of his birthday. They also highlight the role of the Prophetic figure in the identity formation of young Muslims and cover the controversies and compromises which nowadays shape the devotional practices centered on the Prophet.
Contributors
Nelly Amri, Emma Aubin-Boltanski, Sana Chavoshian, Rachida Chih, Vincent Geisser, Denis Gril, Mohamed Amine Hamidoune, David Jordan, Hanan Karam, Kai Kresse, Jamal Malik,Youssef Nouiouar, Luca Patrizi, Thomas Pierret, Stefan Reichmuth, Youssouf T. Sangaré, Besnik Sinani, Fabio Vicini and Ines Weinrich.
Contributors
Nelly Amri, Emma Aubin-Boltanski, Sana Chavoshian, Rachida Chih, Vincent Geisser, Denis Gril, Mohamed Amine Hamidoune, David Jordan, Hanan Karam, Kai Kresse, Jamal Malik,Youssef Nouiouar, Luca Patrizi, Thomas Pierret, Stefan Reichmuth, Youssouf T. Sangaré, Besnik Sinani, Fabio Vicini and Ines Weinrich.
Nelly Amri (Ph.D. 1996, Habilitation 2004) is Professor of History (University of La Manouba). In her research she focuses on piety, Sufism, hagiography, the history of sanctity and female sainthood in the Maghreb. Her publications include Croire au Maghreb médiéval. La sainteté en question, XIVe–XVe siècle (2019).
Rachida Chih (Ph.D. 1996, Habilitation 2015, Aix-en Provence) is Senior Researcher (CNRS, Paris). She specializes in the history, literature and anthropology of Sufism in modern and contemporary Egypt and Morocco. Her publications include Sufism in Ottoman Egypt: Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2019).
Stefan Reichmuth (Ph.D. 1983, Habilitation 1992) is retired Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Bochum University. He has published on Arabic and Islam in Africa, the history of science, Sufism and transregional networks, including “Aspects of Prophetic Piety in the Early Modern Period” (2017).
Contributors
Nelly Amri, Emma Aubin-Boltanski, Sana Chavoshian, Rachida Chih, Vincent Geisser, Denis Gril, Mohamed Amine Hamidoune, David Jordan, Hanan Karam, Kai Kresse, Jamal Malik,Youssef Nouiouar, Luca Patrizi, Thomas Pierret, Stefan Reichmuth, Youssouf T. Sangaré, Besnik Sinani, Fabio Vicini and Ines Weinrich.
Rachida Chih (Ph.D. 1996, Habilitation 2015, Aix-en Provence) is Senior Researcher (CNRS, Paris). She specializes in the history, literature and anthropology of Sufism in modern and contemporary Egypt and Morocco. Her publications include Sufism in Ottoman Egypt: Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2019).
Stefan Reichmuth (Ph.D. 1983, Habilitation 1992) is retired Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Bochum University. He has published on Arabic and Islam in Africa, the history of science, Sufism and transregional networks, including “Aspects of Prophetic Piety in the Early Modern Period” (2017).
Contributors
Nelly Amri, Emma Aubin-Boltanski, Sana Chavoshian, Rachida Chih, Vincent Geisser, Denis Gril, Mohamed Amine Hamidoune, David Jordan, Hanan Karam, Kai Kresse, Jamal Malik,Youssef Nouiouar, Luca Patrizi, Thomas Pierret, Stefan Reichmuth, Youssouf T. Sangaré, Besnik Sinani, Fabio Vicini and Ines Weinrich.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Nelly Amri, Rachida Chih and Stefan Reichmuth
1 Assemblies for “Prayer on the Prophet” in the Maghrib
Wasīlat al-mutawassilīn, by Barakāt al-ʿArūsī (d. ca. 897/1492), and Its Legacy
Nelly Amri
2 La pratique de la “prière sur le Prophète” (taṣliya)
Modalité essentielle de la présence prophétique
Amine Hamidoune
3 The Creation of Muḥammad’s Qualities through Contemporary Chant in Syria and Lebanon
Ines Weinrich
4 “Tu obtiendras ainsi le degré des Compagnons”
Voir le Prophète à l’état de veille
Denis Gril
5 In the Aura of the Prophet
Dreaming of Fāṭima and the Tropes of Connectedness in Iranian Women’s Pious Circles
Sana Chavoshian
6 Le dépôt sacré
Les reliques du prophète Muḥammad entre dévotion et fondation du pouvoir
Luca Patrizi
7 Living the Sunna, Cultivating the Brotherhood
Following the Prophet Muḥammad in a Sufi-Inspired Reformist Community in Contemporary Turkey
Fabio Vicini
8 Pratiques et représentations du prophète Muhammad chez les jeunes musulmans français
La survivance d’un “modèle prophétique” ?
Vincent Geisser and Youssef Nouiouar
9 Socialisation and Individualisation in the Mirror of the Prophet among Young Muslims in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
Stefan Reichmuth and Hanan Karam
10 Mīlād al-Nabī in South Asia
Re-animating the Prophet
Jamal Malik
11 Maulidi Celebrations on the Northern Swahili Coast
Piety and Party: Levels and Layers of Ambivalence
Kai Kresse
12 The Reading of an Ibāḍī-Sufi Mawlid Text and Its Controversial Legacy in Oman
Abū Muslim al-Bahlānī’s (1860–1920) al-Nashʾa al-muḥammadiyya
David Jordan
13 A Mawlid al-Nabī under Close Surveillance
Beirut, November 2019
Emma Aubin-Boltanski
14 Devotional Extremism (ghuluww)?
Muḥammad ʿAlawī al-Mālikī and the Debate over the Veneration (taʿẓīm) and the Characteristics (khaṣāʾiṣ) of the Prophet Muḥammad in Saudi Arabia
Besnik Sinani
15 Prophetic Rituals in Modern Syria
Defending the “Old Orthodoxy” with the ʿUlamāʾ in It
Thomas Pierret
16 Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara on the Obligation to Venerate the Prophet and His Family in Contemporary Mali (En Islam contemporain iv)
Youssouf T. Sangaré
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Nelly Amri, Rachida Chih and Stefan Reichmuth
Part 1: A Living and Close Mediator: Prayer and Chant
1 Assemblies for “Prayer on the Prophet” in the Maghrib
Wasīlat al-mutawassilīn, by Barakāt al-ʿArūsī (d. ca. 897/1492), and Its Legacy
Nelly Amri
2 La pratique de la “prière sur le Prophète” (taṣliya)
Modalité essentielle de la présence prophétique
Amine Hamidoune
3 The Creation of Muḥammad’s Qualities through Contemporary Chant in Syria and Lebanon
Ines Weinrich
Part 2: Spirituality and Materiality of the Prophetic Presence
4 “Tu obtiendras ainsi le degré des Compagnons”
Voir le Prophète à l’état de veille
Denis Gril
5 In the Aura of the Prophet
Dreaming of Fāṭima and the Tropes of Connectedness in Iranian Women’s Pious Circles
Sana Chavoshian
6 Le dépôt sacré
Les reliques du prophète Muḥammad entre dévotion et fondation du pouvoir
Luca Patrizi
Part 3: Identity-Building in the Mirror of the Prophet
7 Living the Sunna, Cultivating the Brotherhood
Following the Prophet Muḥammad in a Sufi-Inspired Reformist Community in Contemporary Turkey
Fabio Vicini
8 Pratiques et représentations du prophète Muhammad chez les jeunes musulmans français
La survivance d’un “modèle prophétique” ?
Vincent Geisser and Youssef Nouiouar
9 Socialisation and Individualisation in the Mirror of the Prophet among Young Muslims in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
Stefan Reichmuth and Hanan Karam
Part 4: Celebrating the Prophet: Mawlid in Context
10 Mīlād al-Nabī in South Asia
Re-animating the Prophet
Jamal Malik
11 Maulidi Celebrations on the Northern Swahili Coast
Piety and Party: Levels and Layers of Ambivalence
Kai Kresse
12 The Reading of an Ibāḍī-Sufi Mawlid Text and Its Controversial Legacy in Oman
Abū Muslim al-Bahlānī’s (1860–1920) al-Nashʾa al-muḥammadiyya
David Jordan
13 A Mawlid al-Nabī under Close Surveillance
Beirut, November 2019
Emma Aubin-Boltanski
Part 5: Defending the Veneration of the Prophet: ʿUlamāʾ and Preachers
14 Devotional Extremism (ghuluww)?
Muḥammad ʿAlawī al-Mālikī and the Debate over the Veneration (taʿẓīm) and the Characteristics (khaṣāʾiṣ) of the Prophet Muḥammad in Saudi Arabia
Besnik Sinani
15 Prophetic Rituals in Modern Syria
Defending the “Old Orthodoxy” with the ʿUlamāʾ in It
Thomas Pierret
16 Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara on the Obligation to Venerate the Prophet and His Family in Contemporary Mali (En Islam contemporain iv)
Youssouf T. Sangaré
Index
Scientific and general readership interested in Islam and Muslim culture and politics in different regional and historical contexts, Historical Anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Politics.