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God's unruly friends : dervish groups in the Islamic later middle period, 1200-1550 / Ahmet T. Karamustafa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (x, 159 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585129754
  • 9780585129754
  • 0874804566
  • 9780874804560
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: God's unruly friends.DDC classification:
  • 297/.65 20
LOC classification:
  • BP188.6 .K37 1994eb
Other classification:
  • 11.84
  • BE 8640
  • EH 5410
  • 11.84.
  • BE 8640.
  • EH 5410.
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Renunciation through Social Deviance -- 3. Renunciation, Deviant Individualism, and Sufism -- 4. Ascetic Virtuosi -- 5. Dervish Groups in Full Bloom, 1200-1500 -- 6. Dervish Groups in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1550 -- 7. Renunciation in the Later Middle Period -- 8. Conclusion.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: "Wandering dervishes formed a prominent feature of most Muslim communities well into the modern period, surviving in some regions even today. Shocking in appearance, behavior, and speech, these social misfits were revered by the public, yet denounced by cultural elites. God's Unruly Friends is the first in-depth and comprehensive survey of this enigmatic type of piety, tracing the history of the different dervish groups that roamed the lands in Western, Central and South Asia, as well as the Middle East and Southeast Europe." http://books.google.com/books?id=o0XYAAAAMAAJ.
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