The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam

Volume 3, Prophetic Piety: Individual and Collective Manifestations

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This third collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the expressions of piety and devotion to the person of the Prophet and their individual and collective significance in early modern and modern times. The authors provide a rich collection of regional case studies on how the Prophet’s presence and aura are individually and collectively evoked in dreams, visions, and prayers, in the performance of poetry in his praise, in the devotion to relics related to him, and in the celebration of his birthday. They also highlight the role of the Prophetic figure in the identity formation of young Muslims and cover the controversies and compromises which nowadays shape the devotional practices centered on the Prophet.

Contributors
Nelly Amri, Emma Aubin-Boltanski, Sana Chavoshian, Rachida Chih, Vincent Geisser, Denis Gril, Mohamed Amine Hamidoune, David Jordan, Hanan Karam, Kai Kresse, Jamal Malik,Youssef Nouiouar, Luca Patrizi, Thomas Pierret, Stefan Reichmuth, Youssouf T. Sangaré, Besnik Sinani, Fabio Vicini and Ines Weinrich.
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2023
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 A Living and Close Mediator Prayer and Chant
1 Assemblies for “Prayer on the Prophet” in the Maghrib
2 La pratique de la “prière sur le Prophète” (taṣliya)
3 The Creation of Muḥammad’s Qualities through Contemporary Chant in Syria and Lebanon
Part 2 Spirituality and Materiality of the Prophetic Presence
4 “Tu obtiendras ainsi le degré des Compagnons”
5 In the Aura of the Prophet
6 Le dépôt sacré
Part 3 Identity-Building in the Mirror of the Prophet
7 Living the Sunna, Cultivating the Brotherhood
8 Pratiques et représentations du prophète Muhammad chez les jeunes musulmans français
9 Socialisation and Individualisation in the Mirror of the Prophet among Young Muslims in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
Part 4 Celebrating the Prophet Mawlid in Context
10 Mīlād al-Nabī in South Asia
11 Maulidi Celebrations on the Northern Swahili Coast
12 The Reading of an Ibāḍī Sufi Mawlid Text and Its Controversial Legacy in Oman
13 A Mawlid al-Nabī under Close Surveillance
Part 5 Defending the Veneration of the Prophet ʿUlamāʾ and Preachers
14 Devotional Extremism (ghuluww)?
15 Prophetic Rituals in Modern Syria
16 Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara on the Obligation to Venerate the Prophet and His Family in Contemporary Mali (En Islam contemporain IV)
Back Matter
Index of Names of Persons and Places, Titles, and Subject Notions
Nelly Amri (Ph.D. 1996, Habilitation 2004) is Professor of History (University of La Manouba). In her research she focuses on piety, Sufism, hagiography, the history of sanctity and female sainthood in the Maghreb. Her publications include Croire au Maghreb médiéval. La sainteté en question, XIVe–XVe siècle (2019).

Rachida Chih (Ph.D. 1996, Habilitation 2015, Aix-en Provence) is Senior Researcher (CNRS, Paris). She specializes in the history, literature and anthropology of Sufism in modern and contemporary Egypt and Morocco. Her publications include Sufism in Ottoman Egypt: Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2019).

Stefan Reichmuth (Ph.D. 1983, Habilitation 1992) is retired Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Bochum University. He has published on Arabic and Islam in Africa, the history of science, Sufism and transregional networks, including “Aspects of Prophetic Piety in the Early Modern Period” (2017).

Contributors
Nelly Amri, Emma Aubin-Boltanski, Sana Chavoshian, Rachida Chih, Vincent Geisser, Denis Gril, Mohamed Amine Hamidoune, David Jordan, Hanan Karam, Kai Kresse, Jamal Malik,Youssef Nouiouar, Luca Patrizi, Thomas Pierret, Stefan Reichmuth, Youssouf T. Sangaré, Besnik Sinani, Fabio Vicini and Ines Weinrich.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
 Nelly Amri, Rachida Chih and Stefan Reichmuth

Part 1: A Living and Close Mediator: Prayer and Chant


1 Assemblies for “Prayer on the Prophet” in the Maghrib
 Wasīlat al-mutawassilīn, by Barakāt al-ʿArūsī (d. ca. 897/1492), and Its Legacy
 Nelly Amri

2 La pratique de la “prière sur le Prophète” (taṣliya)
 Modalité essentielle de la présence prophétique
 Amine Hamidoune

3 The Creation of Muḥammad’s Qualities through Contemporary Chant in Syria and Lebanon
 Ines Weinrich

Part 2: Spirituality and Materiality of the Prophetic Presence


4 “Tu obtiendras ainsi le degré des Compagnons”
 Voir le Prophète à l’état de veille
 Denis Gril

5 In the Aura of the Prophet
 Dreaming of Fāṭima and the Tropes of Connectedness in Iranian Women’s Pious Circles
 Sana Chavoshian

6 Le dépôt sacré
 Les reliques du prophète Muḥammad entre dévotion et fondation du pouvoir
 Luca Patrizi

Part 3: Identity-Building in the Mirror of the Prophet


7 Living the Sunna, Cultivating the Brotherhood
 Following the Prophet Muḥammad in a Sufi-Inspired Reformist Community in Contemporary Turkey
 Fabio Vicini

8 Pratiques et représentations du prophète Muhammad chez les jeunes musulmans français
 La survivance d’un “modèle prophétique” ?
 Vincent Geisser and Youssef Nouiouar

9 Socialisation and Individualisation in the Mirror of the Prophet among Young Muslims in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
 Stefan Reichmuth and Hanan Karam

Part 4: Celebrating the Prophet: Mawlid in Context


10 Mīlād al-Nabī in South Asia
 Re-animating the Prophet
 Jamal Malik

11 Maulidi Celebrations on the Northern Swahili Coast
 Piety and Party: Levels and Layers of Ambivalence
 Kai Kresse

12 The Reading of an Ibāḍī-Sufi Mawlid Text and Its Controversial Legacy in Oman
 Abū Muslim al-Bahlānī’s (1860–1920) al-Nashʾa al-muḥammadiyya
 David Jordan

13 A Mawlid al-Nabī under Close Surveillance
 Beirut, November 2019
 Emma Aubin-Boltanski

Part 5: Defending the Veneration of the Prophet: ʿUlamāʾ and Preachers


14 Devotional Extremism (ghuluww)?
 Muḥammad ʿAlawī al-Mālikī and the Debate over the Veneration (taʿẓīm) and the Characteristics (khaṣāʾiṣ) of the Prophet Muḥammad in Saudi Arabia
 Besnik Sinani

15 Prophetic Rituals in Modern Syria
 Defending the “Old Orthodoxy” with the ʿUlamāʾ in It
 Thomas Pierret

16 Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara on the Obligation to Venerate the Prophet and His Family in Contemporary Mali (En Islam contemporain iv)
 Youssouf T. Sangaré

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Scientific and general readership interested in Islam and Muslim culture and politics in different regional and historical contexts, Historical Anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Politics.
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