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Author Pierret, Thomas.

Title Religion and State in Syria : the Sunni Ulama from Coup to Revolution / Thomas Pierret
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series Cambridge Middle East studies ; 41
Cambridge Middle East studies ; 41
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
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
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
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)
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)
Ulama -- Political activity -- Syria.
SUBJECT Syria -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006215 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Syria -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006215 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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