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1 online resource (176 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Summary |
Every year, in Tanta, in the heart of the Nile Delta, a festival takes place that was for centuries the biggest in the Muslim world: the mulid of al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawi, a much-loved saint who cures the impotent and renders barren women fertile. This study tells the history of a Sufi festival that for long overshadowed even the pilgrimage to Mecca. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen shows that the mulid does not stand in opposition to religious orthodoxy, but rather acts as a mirror to Egyptian Islam, uniting ordinary believers, peasants, ulama, and heads of Sufi brotherhoods in a shared spiritual fer. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Egypt -- Ṭanṭā.
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Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
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Egypt -- Ṭanṭā. |
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Egypt -- Ṭanṭā. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Clement, Colin.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta : Egypt's Legendary Sufi Festival La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press,c2019 9789774168925 |
| ISBN |
161797952X |
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9781617979521 (electronic book) |
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