Zusammenhänge von wissenschaftlichem und spirituellem Lernen – Islamstudien zu Ehren von Stefan Reichmuth (aktualisiert)

The Piety of Learning: Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth

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Michael Kemper / Ralf Elger (eds.):

Leiden (NL): Brill 2017, 381 pp., illustr.

ISBN13:

9789004349827

E-ISBN:

9789004349841

Main Series:

Islamic History and Civilization Vol. 147

ISSN:

0929-2403

The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present. Senior scholars discuss Islamic teaching philosophies since the 18th century in Nigeria, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, Russia, and Germany. Particular attention is paid to the power of Islamic poetry and to networks and practices of the Tijāniyya, Rifā‘iyya, Khalwatiyya, Naqshbandiyya, and Shādhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods. The final section highlights some unusual European encounters with Islam, and features a German Pietist who traveled through the Ottoman Empire, a Habsburg officer who converted to Islam in Bosnia, a Dutch colonial Islamologist who befriended a Salafi from Jeddah, and a Soviet historian who preserved Islamic manuscripts.

Contributors are:

Razaq ‘Deremi Abubakre; Bekim Agai; Rainer Brunner; Alfrid K. Bustanov; Thomas Eich; Ralf Elger; Ulrike Freitag; Michael Kemper; Markus Koller; Anke von Kügelgen; Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; Armina Omerika; Amidu Olalekan Sanni; Yaşar Sarikaya; Rüdiger Seesemann; Shamil Sh. Shikhaliev; Diliara M. Usmanova.

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Biographical note

Michael Kemper, Ph.D. (1997), is professor of Eastern European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
He has published widely on Islam in Russia, and is co-editor (with A.K. Kalinovsky) of Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War(Routledge, 2015).

Ralf Elger, Ph.D. (1993), is professor for Arabic and Islamic studies
at Martin-Luther-University in Halle (Germany). He has published on Early Modern Arabic literature,
especially travelogues, and recently has developed an interest in German Christian travel writing.

Table of contents /Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Introduction: The Piety of Learning — Michael Kemper and Ralf Elger

ʿIlm, Adab, Education

1 ʿIlm and Adab Revisited: Knowledge Transmission and Character Formation in Islamic Africa
Rüdiger Seesemann

2 From the Intellectual Powerhouse of Ilorin (Nigeria):
Elegy in the Work of Adam ʿAbdallāh al-Ilūrī (1917–1992)
Amidu Olalekan Sanni, assisted by Yunus Alade Salman

3 The Khādimīs of Konya: The Rise of a Scholarly Family from the Ottoman Periphery
Yaşar Sarıkaya

4 Moral Education in Central Asia, 19th–21st Centuries: The Foundations for Sufi,
Jadīd, Soviet, National, and Islamist Ethics
Anke von Kügelgen

Sufi Dynamics

5 The Small World of Aḥmad al-Ṣāwī (1761–1825), an Egyptian Khalwatī Shaykh
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

6 Abū l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī and Ḥadīth
Thomas Eich

7 Sayfallāh-Qāḍī Bashlarov: Sufi Networks between the North Caucasus and the Volga-Urals
Shamil Shikhaliev and Michael Kemper

8 Against Leviathan: On the Ethics of Islamic Poetry in Soviet Russia
Alfrid K. Bustanov

Unusual Encounters with Islam

9 Blessing and Curse in the “Promised Land”:
Jonas Korte’s Travels in the Ottoman Empire, 1737–1739
Ralf Elger

10 Ömer Pasha Latas and the Ottoman Reform Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1850–1851)
Markus Koller

11 The Pilgrim’s Tale as a Means of Self-Promotion:
Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā’s Journey to the Ḥijāz (1916)
Rainer Brunner

12 Scholarly Exchange and Trade: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Naṣīf and
His Letters to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Ulrike Freitag

13 Rescuing the Tatar Muslim Heritage in the Soviet Union:
The Expedition Diaries of Mirkasym A. Usmanov
Diliara M. Usmanova

14 Islamic Theological Studies in Germany: A Discipline in the Making
Bekim Agai and Armina Omerika

15 Stefan Reichmuth’s Wanderings in Arabicized and Islamized Yorubaland
Razaq ‘Deremi Abubakre

Bibliography of Printed Works
Index of Names
Index of Places