Description |
1 online resource (296 pages) |
Series |
Cambridge Middle East studies ; 41 |
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Cambridge Middle East studies ; 41
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Contents |
Cover; Religion and State in Syria; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Conventions; Introduction; State of the Literature; Definition of the Topic; Sources; Organisation of the Book; Prologue: Aborted Institutionalisation (1946-1979); Institutional Development and Kemalist-Like Modernisation (1946-1963); Ba'thist Revolution and the End of Institutionalisation (1963-1979); 1 The Era of the 'Founding Sheikhs' (1920-1979); The Nahda ('Renaissance of Sacred Knowledge'); The End of the Old Religious Dynasties; Narratives of Re-foundation and Transition |
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Making Sufism Immune to Salafi-Modernist CriticismsA Pillar of Sunni Orthodoxy; Moral or Esotericism?; Sainthood: Baraka, Spiritual State, and Miracles; Supererogatory Rituals and the Problem of the Tariqa; September 11 and the Anti-Salafi International; Contemporary Reformist Strategies; Muhammad Habash: Fortunes and Misfortunes of Ecumenism; Jawdat Sa'id, the 'Arab Gandhi'; The Political Reformists, Heirs of the Muslim Brothers; Priority to Political Opening; The Legacy of the Muslim Brothers and Salafism; Between the Ulama and the Independent Islamists; Conclusion |
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Opening Up in Aleppo: Old Religious Families and 'Conscious Preachers'Conclusion; 3 (Re)defining Orthodoxy against Reformist Trends; The Expansion and Decline of Syrian Salafism; Salafism and New Intellectual Elites in the Middle of the Twentieth Century; Salafi Ulama under the Ba'th; The Invisible Enemy; The Old Orthodoxy's New Clothes; The Persistent Rejection of Islamic Reform; The Impregnable Dominance of Ash'ari Theology; Defensive Revisions of Fiqh; The Persistence of 'Madhhabism'; Wahba al-Zuhayli and Legal Comparativism; The Revival of Hadith Studies: An Anti-Salafi Weapon |
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The Challenges of Educational ModernisationAl-Gharra''s Aborted Project of Communal Islamic Schooling; The Training of the Ulama: Modernisation and Its Challenges; Institutionalisation and Reformism; Private Institutes: The Strongholds of Tradition; Portraits; Hasan Habannaka, the Rebellious Sheikh of the Midan; Ahmad Kaftaru, the Grand Mufti of the Ba'th; Muhammad al-Nabhan: Tribalism and Apocalypse; Co-opting the 'Literate Youth': Informal Education Movements; The Engineer and the Mosque; The Expansion of the 'Educational Method'; Conclusion; 2 Landscapes after the Battle (1979-2007) |
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The Ulama in the UprisingThe Jama'at: Cradles of the Armed Groups; The Scars of Repression; Regaining Control of the Religious Field: The 'Weak State Strategy'; The Withering Away of the Religious Bureaucracy; The Time of the 'Subcontractors'; The Kaftaru and al-Farfur Families between State Support and Succession Quarrels; The Political Emergence of Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti; Bab al-Nayrab Sets Out to Conquer Aleppo; New Policies, New Partners; Jama'at Zayd: Back in Favour ... and in Force; Ratib al-Nabulsi, the Star of Radio Preaching |
Summary |
This book affords a new perspective on Syria as it stands at the crossroads of political, social and religious fragmentation |
Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed 26 Feb 2013) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Syria)
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Ulama -- Political activity -- Syria.
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SUBJECT |
Syria -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006215 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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Syria -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006215 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1107026415 (hardback) |
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1139207725 (ebook) |
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113961634X |
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1139625640 |
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9781139612623 |
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9781107026414 (hardback) |
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9781139207720 (ebook) |
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9781139616348 |
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9781139625647 |
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