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Abûnâ Yassâ : un pèlerinage copte-orthodoxe de Haute-Égypte face aux catholiques et aux musulmans
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L'adab soufi en Égypte à l'heure du réformisme musulman
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Bashnûna : l'invention d'un saint médiéval dans l'Égypte contemporaine
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Le cheikh scrupuleux et l'émir généreux à travers les Aḫlāq matbūliyya de Šaʿrānī
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Le Collège de la Sainte-Famille dans la société égyptienne (1879-1919)
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Le corps entre sacré et profane : la réforme des pratiques pèlerines en Égypte (XIXᵉ-XXᵉ siècles)
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Les débuts d'une revue néo-salafiste : Muḥibb al-Dîn al-Khaṭîb et Al-Fatḥ de 1926 à 1928
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Ethics and spirituality in Islam: Sufi adab, an introduction
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Famille et confrérie en Égypte
Based on the study of texts, as well as on a field survey conducted between 2010 and 2013 in Cairo, Alexandria and in villages in the northwestern Nile Delta, this article discusses the exemplary case Based on the study of texts, as well as on a field survey conducted between 2010 and 2013 in Cairo, Alexandria and in villages in the northwestern Nile Delta, this article discusses the exemplary case of the ṭarīqa Burhāmiyya Šarnūbiyya. This hereditary Sufi order was founded in the village of Šarnūb near Disūq by the Egyptian Sheikh ʿAḥmad ʿArab al-Šarnūbī (d. 1586), a descendant of the Prophet and ancestor of the Šarnūbī family. The link between the family and the order has endured thanks to the memory of the holy ancestors, which has been revived to the present day by new saints; thanks to the hagiographical texts produced by the Šarnūbī at different periods of time; and, finally, thanks to a strong local presence and a land hold that the Šarnūbī sheikhs have been able to build on at different stages of their history, from at least the 16th century to the present day. As spiritual leaders supported by the Ottoman power, local elites, literate Azharians, large landowners, the Šarnūbīs have exploited the varied dimensions of their family and order heritage, thanks to the support of the Khedivate in the 19th century, and they survived the 1952 land reform. Genealogy (nasab) and lineage (silsila), family memory, order memory, hagiographic memory are inseparable and also converge towards the Prophet. Undoubtedly coming from the Mamluk period, enriched in the Ottoman period and in the 19th century, the Šarnūbī family is typical of many “order-families” in Egypt, firmly rooted in their land holdings and in al-Azhar. After the Nasser revolution and the agrarian reform, the modernization and diversification of the social and political elites diminished the social and political role of these order-families, yet they continued to form effective networks of power. During the 2011 revolution, Sheikh Šarnūbī sought to give a political role to the Sufi orders to resist the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Les familles au Moyen-Orient moderne et contemporain (XVIIᵉ-XXIᵉ siècle)
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La fonction sacrale de l'image dans l'Égypte contemporaine
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Grands hommes, héros, saints et martyrs : figures du sacré et du politique dans le Moyen-Orient du XXᵉ siècle
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Histoire de l’islam au XIIe/XVIIIIe siècle
The twelfth/eighteenth and early thirteenth/nineteenth centuries saw the emergence in the Muslim world of great reformers, muǧaddids and muǧtahids, perceived as such by their contemporaries. Aware of
The twelfth/eighteenth and early thirteenth/nineteenth centuries saw the emergence in the Muslim world of great reformers, muǧaddids and muǧtahids, perceived as such by their contemporaries. Aware of a general crisis in the Muslim world and eager to maintain the unity of the umma, they wished to remedy it through their reform projects, and participated in the revival of Hadith that characterised the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, echoing the fifteenth. Many also discussed takfīr, practiced by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb. How to study them, how to read them, and with what methods? These are the questions posed by the two books surveyed here, while illuminating historiographical progress in the intellectual and religious history of the eighteenth century.
Ahmad Dallal’s important book, Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought, published in 2018, starts from a close reading of the works of six reformers, embedded in a Yemeni and Indian scholarly tradition: Ibn al-Amīr al-Ṣanʿānī (1099/1688-1182/1769), Šāh Walī Llāh al-Dihlāwī (Shah Waliullah, 1114/1703-1176/1762), Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (1115/1703-1206/1792), ʿUṯmān b. Fūdī (Usman Dan Fodio, 1168/1754-1232/1817), Muḥammad b. ʿAlī l-Šawkānī (1173/1759-1250/1834) and Muḥammad b. ʿAlī l-Sanūsī (1202/1787-1276/1859). Strongly scholarly, militant, but unfortunately representative of a poorly contextualised textual history, Islam without Europe is a very useful book, which encourages comparative reading of the main authors discussed, al-Šawkānī in particular.
It is possible, however, to read the primary sources in a true historian’s way of thinking. This is the point made by Stefan Reichmuth in The World of Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī, published in 2009, about Murtaḍā l-Zabīdī (d. 1205/1791), an Indian scholar trained in Yemen and settled in Egypt. Mixing biography, network studies, and general history of Islamic thought in the twelfth/eighteenth century in its social, political, and economic anchorage, the book concludes with the humanism of this Muslim scholar and Sufi.
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Histoire du Moyen-Orient
Forgée au début du XXe siècle et initialement liée aux intérêts britanniques dans le golfe Persique et au voisinage de l’Inde, l’expression « Moyen-Orient » a des définitions fluctuantes. Ce livre tra Forgée au début du XXe siècle et initialement liée aux intérêts britanniques dans le golfe Persique et au voisinage de l’Inde, l’expression « Moyen-Orient » a des définitions fluctuantes. Ce livre traite d’un espace allant de l’Égypte à l’Iran et de la mer Noire à l’océan Indien, et inclut occasionnellement le Maghreb. Il souligne l’unité de la région, qui tient à l’héritage des Empires ottoman et qâjâr et à l’ancienneté de la présence de l’islam. Son ambition est double : sortir des études sectorielles par aire linguistique ou État pour étudier le Moyen-Orient comme un ensemble ; dans un cadre chronologique dicté par la politique et les relations internationales, faire vivre les populations sur les plans culturel, religieux, social et économique.
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Histoire d'un pélerinage légendaire en Islam
Every year, 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 of Tanta. Since the thirteenth century
Every year, 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 of Tanta. Since the thirteenth century millions of believers from neighboring regions and countries have flooded into Tanta, Egypt’s fourth-largest city, to pay devotional homage to al-Badawi, a much-loved saint who cures the impotent and renders barren women fertile.
This book tells for the first time the history of a mulid that for long overshadowed even the pilgrimage to Mecca. Organized by Sufi brotherhoods, it had, by the nineteenth century, grown to become the scene of a boisterous and rowdy festival that excited the curiosity of European travelers. Their accounts of the indecorous dancing and sacred prostitution that enlivened the mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi fed straight into Orientalist visions of a sensual and atavistic East. Islamic modernists as well as Western observers were quick to criticize the cult of al-Badawi, reducing it to a muddle of superstitions and even a resurgence of anti-Islamic pagan practices. For many pilgrims, however, al-Badawi came to embody the Egyptian saint par excellence, the true link to the Prophet, his hagiographies and mulid standing for the genuine expression of a shared popular culture.
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen shows that the mulid does not in fact 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 fervor. The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta leads us on a discovery of this remarkably colorful and festive manifestation of Islam.
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L'intercession des saints en islam égyptien : autour de Sayyid al-Badawi
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Introduction : le soufisme ottoman vu d'Égypte (XVIᵉ-XVIIIᵉ siècle)
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La Sīra ḥalabiyya (1043/1633)
Completed in 1043/1633, the Insān al-ʿuyūn fī sīrat al-nabī l-maʾmūn by the Egyptian shaykh ʿAlī l-Ḥalabī (d. 1044/1635) is better known as Sīra ḥalabiyya. It presents itself as a summary of two Mamlu Completed in 1043/1633, the Insān al-ʿuyūn fī sīrat al-nabī l-maʾmūn by the Egyptian shaykh ʿAlī l-Ḥalabī (d. 1044/1635) is better known as Sīra ḥalabiyya. It presents itself as a summary of two Mamluk-era sīras, the ʿUyūn al-aṯar fī funūn al-maġāzī wa-l-šamāʾil wa-l-siyar by Ibn Sayyid al-Nās (d. 734/1334) and the Subul al-hudā wa-l-rašād fī sīrat ḫayr al-ʿibād, of al-Ṣāliḥī l-Šāmī (d. 942/1536). The Sīra of Ḥalabī was written at the request of the sheikh al-Bakrī and participated in the debates of 11th/17th-century Ottoman Islam. By getting rid of the chains of transmission of hadiths, and of a too strict quest for authenticity, by often avoiding quoting precisely its sources, al-Ḥalabī seeks narrative flexibility for presenting probable, possible, and multiple versions of the Prophet’s life. His conciliatory method firmly guides the reader to the signs of the Prophet’s presence in human history, where the origins are constantly made current by new narratives.
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Monde nouveau, voix nouvelles : États, sociétés, islam dans l'entre-deux-guerres
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Les paradoxes du renouveau copte dans l'Égypte contemporaine
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Pèlerinages d'Égypte : histoire de la piété copte et musulmane
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Que partagent les coptes et les musulmans d'Égypte ?
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Quelques aspects de la faune nilotique dans la relation d'Evliyâ Çelebî, voyageur ottoman
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La question féminine vue par la revue néo-salafiste Al-Fatḥ à la fin des années 1920
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Le saint et la sainteté comme objets des sciences de l'homme
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Al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī : un grand saint de l'islam égyptien
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The small world of Aḥmad al-Ṣāwī (1761–1825), an Egyptian Khalwatī Shaykh
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Un cheikh soufi peut-il être un héros moderne ? Le cheikh Shaʿrâwî, le pouvoir et la télévision
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Une revue catholique d’Égypte à l’époque nassérienne
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"Urgence pour l'Algérie" Vin Nouveau, une revue d'étudiants catholiques contre la guerre d'Algérie (1955-1956)
