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Tales of God's friends: Islamic hagiography in translation

Tales of God's friends: Islamic hagiography in translation
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ISBN 9780520258969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Title Tales of God's friends : Islamic hagiography in translation / edited by John Renard
Publisher Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, 2009
Physical desc. xiv, [1], 413 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 23 cm.
Note CBL illustrations: frontispiece (T 413, f. 38a)
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents Introduction: Islamic hagiography: sources and contexts. -- Pt. 1: The Arab Middle East and North Africa: Abū Bakr in tradition and early hagiography / John Renard. -- Tamīmī's eyewitness account of Abū Ya'zā Yallanūr (572/1177) / Kenneth Honerkamp. -- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad al-Yāfīʻī's defense of saintly marvels / Erik S. Ohlander. -- The Wafāʼīya of Cairo / Richard McGregor. -- Pt. 2: Iran and Afghanistan: Junayd in the Hilyat al-awliyā and the Nafahāt al-uns / Jawid Mojaddedi. -- Saʻdī's earthly vision of sainthood in the Bustān and the Gulistān / Fatemeh Keshavarz. -- Ostad Elahi and Hajjī Niʻmat: master and disciple, father and son / James W. Morris. -- A miracle of an Afghan friend of God, the mulla of Hadda / David Edwards. -- Part 3: Turkey and Central Asia: Three tales from the central Asian Book of Hakīm Ata / Devin DeWeese. -- Sarı Saltık becomes a friend of God / Ahmet T. Karamustafa. -- Sarı İsmail: the beloved disciple of Hacı Bektaş Veli / Vernon James Schubel and Nurten Kilic-Schubel. -- Yūnus Emre seeks his share: traditional and modern accounts / Mark Soileau. -- Part 4: Africa: west and east: Shaykh al-Hajj Abbass Sall: in praise of the Tijānīya order / Souleymane Bachir Diagne. -- Imitating the life of the Prophet: Nana Asma'u and Usman dan Fodiyo / Beverly B. Mack. -- Job's wife in the Swahili Epic of Job / J.W.T. Allen. -- The death of Shaykh Uways of Somalia / Scott Reese. -- Part 5: South Asia: A Tazkira for the times: saving Islam in post-partition Punjab / Anna Bigelow. -- Tales of renewal: Ahmad Sirhindī, reformer of the second millennium / Arthur Buehler. -- Sufi poetry of the Indus Valley: Khwāja Ghulām Farīd / Jamal J. Elias. -- The Ismāʻīlī Pīr Sadr ad-Dīn / Ali S. Asani. -- An Indo-Persian guide to Sufi shrine visitation / Carl W. Ernst. -- Sufi autobiography in the twentieth century: the worldly and spiritual journeys of Khwāja Hasan Nizāmi / Marcia Hermansen. -- Bonbībī, protectress of the forest / Sufia Mendez Uddin. -- The tales of Mānik Pīr: protector of cows in Bengal / Tony K. Stewart. -- Pt. 5: Southeast and East Asia: The Malay story of Muhammad al-Hanafīya / Lode F. Brakel. -- Sunan Ampel of the Javanese Wali Songo / Anna M. Gade. -- Lan Zixi's Epitaphs of the real humans / Sachiko Murata.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 413
Islamic hagiography
Muslim saints -- Biography
Sufis Biography
Islamic literature
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