Nikola Pantic

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus (eBook, ePUB)

Religion, Magic, and the Eighteenth-Century Networks of the Holy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study focuses on historical beliefs in baraka, which religious authorities often interpreted as Allah's grace, and the alleged Sufi-ulamaic role in distributing it to Ottoman subjects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000962611
• Artikelnr.: 68627607

Autorenporträt

Nikola Pantic is Postdoc Assistant at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, and Permanent Fellow of the Center for Religious Studies, Central European University, Vienna.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Patterns of Grace in History and Scholarship: Networks of the Holy in eighteenth-century Bil
d al-Sh
m; Chapter 2. Miracles of God and Saintly Wonders: Magic and Religion in the Syrian Eighteenth Century; Chapter 3. Haunting the Shadows: Contending with the Jinn between the Visible and the Invisible Worlds; Chapter 4. Path to Holiness: The Quest for Grace in eighteenth-century Damascus; Chapter 5. Beyond the Grave: Graceful Dead, Hallowed Places, and the Network of the Holy; Chapter 6. Artes Magicae: Thaumaturgical Rituals in eighteenth-century Sh
m; Chapter 7. Conclusion; Index