1st Edition
Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies The Living Links to the Prophet
Introduction MORIMOTO Kazuo Part 1: Arguing Sayyids and Sharīfs 1. How to Behave Toward Sayyids And Sharīfs: A Trans-Sectarian Tradition of Dream Accounts MORIMOTO Kazuo 2. Qur’ānic Commentary on the Verse of Khums (al-Anfāl VIII:41) Roy Parviz Mottahedeh 3. Debate on the Status of Sayyid/sharīfs in the Modern Era: The ‘Alawī-Irshādī Dispute and Islamic Reformists in the Middle East YAMAGUCHI Motoki Part 2: Sayyids and Sharīfs in the Middle East 4. Genealogy, Marriage, and the Drawing of Boundaries among the ‘Alids (Eighth–Twelfth Centuries) Teresa Bernheimer 5. A Historical Atlas on the ‘Alids: a Proposal and a Few Samples Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti 6. The Reflection of Islamic Tradition on Ottoman Social Structure: The Sayyids and Sharīfs. Rüya Kilic 7. The Ashrāf and the Naqīb Al-Ashrāf in Ottoman Egypt and Syria: A Comparative Analysis Michael Winter Part 3: Sayyids and Sharīfs beyond the Middle East 8. Shurafā in the Last Years of al-Andalus and in the Morisco Period: Laylat Al-Mawlid and Genealogies of the Prophet Muhammad Mercedes García-Arenal 9. The Role of the Masharifu on the Swahili Coast in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Valerie J. Hoffman 10. Dihqāns and Sacred Families in Central Asia Ashirbek Muminov 11. Sacred Descent and Sufi Legitimation in a Genealogical Text from Eighteenth-Century Central Asia: The Sharaf Atā’ī Tradition in Khwārazm Devin Deweese 12. Trends of Ashrāfization in India Arthur F. Buehler 13. The Sayyids as Commodities: The Islamic Periodical Alkisah and the Sayyid Community in Indonesia ARAI Kazuhiro
Biography
MORIMOTO Kazuo is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. He is the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Asian Studies, and his main research interest lies in the role and position of sayyid/sharifs in Muslim societies.
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