Proliferation and Bifurcation of the Sufi Orders in Twentieth-Century Egypt /
This study covers a period of some seventy-five years, from the abolition of right of qadam (priority) in 1905 until the adoption of the Law Concerning the Regulations for the Sufi Orders of 1976 by the Egyptian Parliament. During this period, regulations for the Sufi orders were contested and remai...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
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Call Number: BP172
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1.- Ṣūfī Orders and their Shaykhs in the Early Twentieth Century
- 2.-The Abrogation of Qadam and the Proliferation of Ṭuruq
- 3.-Muḥammad Bakhīt al-Muṭīʿī and his fatwās
- 4.-Notions of Bidʿa and calls for Iṣlāḥ : the Era of ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Bakrī (1912-1940)
- 5.-The enigmatic shaykh: Aḥmad Murād al-Bakrī (1940-1947)
- 6.- Aḥmād al-Ṣāwī (1947-1957): recruiting supporters
- 7.- The Socialist Era: Muḥammad Maḥmūd al-ʿIlwān (1957-1969)
- 8.- Ṭuruq Ḥurra : Variety explored. Legal Status and Modi Operandi
- 9.- The Sufi Orders under Muḥammad Maḥmūd Baḥbaḥ al-Ṣuṭūḥī (1970-1982)
- 10.- The Law of 1976 on the Organization of the Sufi Orders, and the Implementing Regulation of 1978
- Epilogue
- Appendix I: Schedule of the festivities for the birth of the Prophet in 1915
- Appendix II: English Translation of the Law on the Organization of the Sufi Orders of 1976
- References
- Indices.