Theology from the Margins: SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn al-JanuwÄ« and his Community of Outsiders
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This article will examine how Tuḥfat al-ikhwÄn wa-mawÄhib al-imtinÄn fÄ« manÄqib SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn ibn Ê¿AbdallÄh al-JanuwÄ«, the biography of the Moroccan Sufi SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn al-JanuwÄ« (d. 1583), constructs, through the exemplary figure of SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn, a theological model where marginality becomes a vehicle for religious authority. SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn, unlike other Moroccan Sufis of the period whose claim to legitimacy was partly based on their status as descendants of the Prophet Muḥammad, was the son of a Genoese convert to Islam and a Jewish refugee from Iberia. Perhaps due to his origins, he took up the cause of the poor and the excluded and advocated on their behalf. Biographical dictionaries frequently remark upon SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄnâs extreme scrupulousness and aversion to praise and political power. Furthermore, he demanded respect for religious minorities, all the while advocating for a strong defense against Portuguese invasion. Through the hagiography, the sheikh emerges as a religious figure whose power and spiritual virtue, paradoxically perhaps, rest in his embrace of marginalityâhis own and that of others.
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Theology from the Margins: SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn al-JanuwÄ« and his Community of Outsiders
In: Medieval EncountersSearch for other papers by Manuela Ceballos in
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Abstract
This article will examine how Tuḥfat al-ikhwÄn wa-mawÄhib al-imtinÄn fÄ« manÄqib SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn ibn Ê¿AbdallÄh al-JanuwÄ«, the biography of the Moroccan Sufi SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn al-JanuwÄ« (d. 1583), constructs, through the exemplary figure of SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn, a theological model where marginality becomes a vehicle for religious authority. SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄn, unlike other Moroccan Sufis of the period whose claim to legitimacy was partly based on their status as descendants of the Prophet Muḥammad, was the son of a Genoese convert to Islam and a Jewish refugee from Iberia. Perhaps due to his origins, he took up the cause of the poor and the excluded and advocated on their behalf. Biographical dictionaries frequently remark upon SÄ«dÄ« Riá¸wÄnâs extreme scrupulousness and aversion to praise and political power. Furthermore, he demanded respect for religious minorities, all the while advocating for a strong defense against Portuguese invasion. Through the hagiography, the sheikh emerges as a religious figure whose power and spiritual virtue, paradoxically perhaps, rest in his embrace of marginalityâhis own and that of others.
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