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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810773703321

Autore

Sedgwick Mark J

Titolo

Saints and sons : the making and remaking of the Rashidi Ahmadi Sufi order, 1799-2000 / / by Mark Sedgwick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-85978-4

9786610859788

90-474-0607-9

1-4337-0589-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, , 1385-3376 ; ; v. 97

Disciplina

297.4/8

Soggetti

Sufism - History

Islamic sects - History

Ahmadiyya - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of maps; Preface; Note on transliteration and dating; Introduction; Chapter One Ahmad ibn Idris; Chapter Two The tariqa Muhammadiyya; Chapter Three The Sanusiyya and the Khatmiyya; Chapter Four The Ahmadiyya under al-Rashid; Chapter Five The Ahmadiyya after the death of al-Rashid; Chapter Six The spread of the Dandarawi Ahmadiyya in the Arab world; Chapter Seven The spread of the Dandarawi Ahmadiyya in the Malay world; Chapter Eight Adulation in Egypt; Chapter Nine Institutionalization in Seremban; Chapter Ten Modernity in Singapore; Chapter Eleven Modernity in Cairo and Beirut

Chapter Twelve The authority of shaykhsGlossary; List of interviewees; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each



great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the order, and the limiting effect on even the greatest shaykhs of their followers' expectations.