| Description |
1 online resource (176 p.) |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Egypt -- Ṭanṭā
|
|
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
|
|
Egypt -- Ṭanṭā
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Clement, Colin
|
| ISBN |
161797952X |
|
9781617979521 |
|
