Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East
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Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Near East. Jonathan Berkey's book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, sermons, and tales -- but especially on a number of medieval treatises critical of popular preachers, and also a vigorous defense of them which emerged in fourteenth-century...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0295981261
ISBN13:9780295981260
Release Date:June 2001
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:155 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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