UID:
edocfu_9959241247802883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 143 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-295-80098-4
Series Statement:
Publications on the Near East
Content:
"Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Near East. Jonathan Berkey's book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, sermons, and tales, but especially on a number of medieval treatises critical of popular preachers, and also on a vigorous defense of them that emerged in fourteenth-century Egyptian Sufi circles."--Jacket
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Contents Preface Introduction Origins and Early Controversy Storytelling and Preaching in the Late Middle Period The Social and Political Context of Preaching Storytelling, Preaching, and Knowledge Conclusion: Storytelling, Preaching and the Problem of Religious Authority in Medieval Islam Notes Works Cited Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-295-98126-1
Language:
English
