Tales of God's Friends

Renard, John (Hrsg.):
Tales of God's friends : Islamic hagiography in translation / ed. by John Renard. - Berkeley [u.a.] : University of California Press, 2009. - xiv, 412 S. : Ill.
ISBN 978-0-520-25322-3
US$ 60,00 / £ 41,95 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-520-25896-9
US$ 24,95 / £ 16,95 (Paperback)
DDC: 297.0922

Beschreibung
This remarkable collection gathers a breathtakingly diverse selection of primary texts from the vast repertoire of Islamic stories about holy men and women—also known as Friends of God—who were exemplary for their piety, intimacy with God, and service to their fellow human beings. Translated from seventeen languages by more than two dozen scholars of Islamic studies, these texts come from the Middle East, North and sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South Asia, and China and Southeast Asia. Historically, they begin with the eighth century and include samples from medieval, early modern, and modern Muslim societies. Expertly edited and introduced by John Renard, Tales of God's Friends serves as a companion volume to Renard's Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Illustrations. ix
Preface. xi
Introduction: Islamic Hagiography: sources and contexts. 1
PART 1: THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. 13
    1. John Renard: Abū Bakr in tradition and early hagiography. 15
    2. Kenneth Honerkamp: Tamīmī's eyewitness account of Abu ̄Yaʻzā Yallanūr (572/1177). 30
    3. Erik S. Ohlander: ʻAbd Allāh ibn Asʻad Yāfiʻī's defense of saintly marvels. 47
    4. Richard McGregor: The Wafāʼīya of Cairo. 63
PART 2: IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN. 77
    5. Jawid Mojaddedi: Junayd in the Hilyat al-awliyāʼ and the Nafahāt al-uns. 79
    6. Fatemeh Keshavarz: Saʻdī's earthly vision of sainthood in the Bustān and the Gulistān. 92
    7. James W. Morris: Ostad Elahi and Hajjī Niʻmat: master and disciple, father and son. 100
    8. David Edwards: A miracle of an Afghan friend of God, the Mulla of Hadda. 114
PART 3: TURKEY AND CENTRAL ASIA. 119
    9. Devin DeWeese: Three tales from the central Asian Book of Hakīm Ata. 121
    10. Ahmet T. Karamustafa: Sarı Saltık becomes a friend of God. 136
    11. Vernon James Schubel and Nurten Kilic-Schubel: Sarı Ismail, the beloved disciple of Hacı Bektaş Veli. 145
    12. Mark Soileau: Yūnus Emre seeks his share: traditional and modern accounts. 150
PART 4: AFRICA: WEST AND EAST. 167
    13. Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Shaykh al-Hajj Abbass Sall: in praise of the Tījānīya order. 169
    14. Beverly B. Mack: Imitating the life of the Prophet: Nana Asmaʼu and Usman dan Fodiyo. 179
    15. J.W.T. Allen: Job's wife in the Swahili epic of Job. 197
    16. Scott Reese: The death of Shaykh Uways of Somalia. 208
PART 5: SOUTH ASIA. 217
    17. Anna Bigelow: A Tazkira for the times: saving Islam in post-partition Punjab. 219
    18. Arthur Buehler: Tales of renewal: Ahmad Sirhindī, reformer of the second millennium. 234
    19. Jamal J. Elias: Sufi poetry of the Indus valley: Khwāja Ghulām Farīd. 249
    20. Ali S. Asani: The Ismāʻīlī Pir Sadr ad-Dīn. 261
    21. Carl W. Ernst: An Indo-Persian guide to Sufi shrine visitation. 269
    22. Marcia Hermansen: Sufi autobiography in the twentieth century: the worldly and spiritual journeys of Khwāja Hasan Nizāmī. 286
    23. Sufia Mendez Uddin: Bonbībī, protectress of the forest. 301
    24. Tony K. Stewart: The tales of Mānik Pīr: protector of cows in Bengal. 312
PART 6: SOUTHEAST AND EAST ASIA. 333
    25. Lode F. Brakel: The Malay story of Muhammad of al-Hanafīya. 335
    26. Anna M. Gade: Sunan Ampel of the Javanese Wali Songo. 341
    27. Sachiko Murata: Lan Zixi's Epitaphs of the real humans. 359
Appendix. 371
Glossary. 377
About the Contributors. 391
Index of Names. 397
Index of Concepts, Themes, Places, and Book Titles. 405
Qur'an index. 413

Herausgeber
G. JOHN RENARD is Professor of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. His many books include Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims, Windows on the House of Islam, and Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood. Profile page.

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