Author : Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781617979538
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (795 download)
Book Synopsis The Mulid of Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi of Tanta by : Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
Download or read book The Mulid of Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi of Tanta written by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.