The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam最新文献

{"title":"The Prophet, His Mevlud, and the Building of the Albanian Nation-State","authors":"Gianfranco Bria","doi":"10.1163/9789004466753_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466753_012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter aims to explain how the mevlud ( mawlid in Arabic, mevlit in Turkish) was linked to processes of nation-state building in Albania. For Albanians the term mevlud has various meanings, relating to the birth or birthday of the Prophet, celebratory events connected with his birth, and the artistic forms or genres that evolve along with and accompany these celebrations, such as panegyric poems. The present chapter concerns the latter two meanings, and treats them separately. Its first section analyses how translations into Albanian of the most widespread Turkish mevlit text, S ü leyman Ç elebi’s Vesîletü’n-Necât , underpinned the process of nation-building after the end of the Ottoman period, and contributed to forming an Islamic national literature and diffusing the Albanian language. Our second section analyses the affirmation of the mevlud festival as a symbol of Sunnī Islam during the interwar period and its subsequent suppression by the Communist regime, which substantially erased the community’s memory of the mevlud celebrations. Our aim is to understand the incorporation of the Sunnī authorities into national ideologies, and how they in turn use the mevlud ritual as a means of legitimis-ing their identity and leadership. The final section of the chapter examines the post-socialist revival of mevlud practices, secularised (and nationalised) by Sunnī national authorities and reshaped by foreign actors in a plural religious setting where believers, who are expressing their individual (and by now highly diversified) religiosity, know such traditions only superficially. Our aim is to understand how first socialist secularisation and then Salafist/globalised literalism decultured and alienated this ritual.","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"22 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131840646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Prophet in the Qurʾān","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004466739_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466739_004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131042872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Place and Functions of the Figure of the Prophet in Turkish School Textbooks and General Religious Teaching","authors":"Dilek Sarmis","doi":"10.1163/9789004466753_011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466753_011","url":null,"abstract":"The involvement of the Turkish state in religious teaching has a complex history, shaped by its particular relationship with secularism. The foundation of the Turkish Republic was based on a transfer of the prerogatives of şeyhülislam to the institutions of the new republican state, as part of a movement towards institutional secularisation, understood as a transfer to the state of authority over religious affairs. Religious education in public primary and secondary schools already existed at the end of the Ottoman Empire, and was maintained when the Turkish Republic was founded in 1923, but its extent varied in the subsequent decades. By the beginning of the 1930s religious instruction had almost disappeared from public schools, but its rehabilitation began at the end of the 1940s, brought about by politicians who used the importance of religion in national culture and its benefits in the forming of citizens to justify its gradual return; its indirect status as an Islamic reference point in the general education system fits in with the nationalistic politics of the Turkish state during and since the 1940s. In recent years, as a result of a movement that began during the early 1980s, courses in religious culture have become generalised throughout public education, both primary and secondary. In this context the place occupied by the Prophet in the disciplines concerned relates not only to his centrality as messenger, historic figure, and receiver of the revelation, but to concepts of republican citizenship.","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132765666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theology of Veneration of the Prophet Muḥammad","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004466739_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466739_008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129807097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Présence du Prophète dans l’art du panégyrique (madīḥ) et de l’audition spirituelle (samāʿ)","authors":"Thami El Harrak, spirituelle samā, M. Harrak, El Harrak","doi":"10.1163/9789004466739_017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466739_017","url":null,"abstract":"Pour suivre les traces de la présence du Prophète dans l’art du panégyrique, il faut observer la manière dont se dessinent les traits de sa personne dans des textes destinés à être chantés1. Dans ces textes s’interpénètrent poésie, mélodie, mesure rythmique et chant. Ils sont produits et reçus dans divers contextes religieux et dans certains lieux : mosquées, zaouias, mausolées et maisons privés. Leur production est soumise à certaines conditions et aménagements qui favorisent l’impact de ces chants sur les âmes et les esprits à la mesure des significations et des valeurs qu’ils véhiculent. Si nous considérons le corpus poétique du panégyrique et de l’audition spirituelle, nous trouvons d’un côté des textes qui chantent la présence prophétique et de l’autre, des textes soufis ou « parole des initiés » (kalām al-qawm) dont l’objet est la présence divine. La composition de ces textes s’étend sur des siècles et leurs auteurs ont vécu dans divers temps et lieux, entre Orient, Andalus et Maghreb. On a également affaire à plusieurs genres : poésie classique, muwashshaḥ, zajal andalou et malḥûn maghrébin. Ces textes sont chantés dans toutes sortes de circonstances religieuses et sociales, privées et publiques, dans les moments de joie et de tristesse. Ils accompagnent le musulman en général et le musulman marocain en particulier du berceau à la tombe. Il est donc impossible de rendre compte de tous les aspects que revêt dans ces textes la figure de l’Élu de Dieu. C’est pourquoi notre présentation consistera à relever les principaux thèmes où se manifeste plus particulièrement la présence du Prophète et par lesquels ils exercent une fonction spirituelle et esthétique, tant sur le plan individuel que collectif. A propos de ces chants, il faut tenir compte des deux faces de cet art : la première, comme on l’a dit axée sur la présence prophétique, est partagée par tous, le grand public et les initiés, car elle n’est pas exposée à la critique dont peuvent être l’objet les poèmes destinés aux initiés, caractérisés par leur langage allusif et symbolique, bachique et érotique, expression d’une","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"21 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114034347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Les poèmes d’éloge du Prophète de Lisān al-Dīn Ibn al-Khāṭīb (713-776/1313-1374 ou 75)","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004466739_016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466739_016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128555809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Visualising the Prophet – Rhetorical and Graphic Aspects of Three Ottoman-Turkish Poems","authors":"Süleymān Çelebi’s, Tobias Heinzelmann","doi":"10.1163/9789004466739_022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466739_022","url":null,"abstract":": Narrative and panegyric poems about the Prophet Muḥammad were among the most widely read texts in the Ottoman Empire. They made the Prophet accessible to a broad readership; they were recited during rites; and the acts of copying them with one’s own hand, reading them, and presenting them as endowments promised reward on the day of judgement. There also was a strong visual aspect to the production and usage of these manuscripts: the beauty of the Prophet, the beauty of the (spoken) word, and the beauty of the handwriting were interrelated. Much can therefore be learned about the image of the Prophet Muḥammad in Ottoman society, and specifically in Ottoman book culture, by analysing this interrelation. In my study I focus on three poems, which are preserved in large numbers in manuscript collections all over the world, and which were published in several printed editions – Süleymān Çelebi’s Vesīlet en-Necāt (812/1409), Yazıcıoğlı Muḥammed’s Muḥammedīye (853/1449), and Ḫāḳānī’s Ḥilye (1007/1598–9). These have several features in common: their topic (the biography and/or the physiognomy of Muḥammad); their form (poetry); the fact that the texts are transmitted with the signature of their author; and a precise date. However, the authors employed very different strategies to visualise the Prophet, and so did the copyists, calligraphers, and illustrators. The three texts are analysed successively. Each section begins with a short survey of the intention of the authors as described in prefaces or colophons, and, if relevant, later biographical and hagiographical texts. Then the structure of the texts and narrative, along with their poetical and rhetorical characteristics, will be described, and, in a concluding step, the interrelation with graphic aspects of selected manuscripts and printed copies is explored. Muḥammad in","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133913553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Al-Dawla al-nabawiyya","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004466753_019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466753_019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133068040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Prophet as a Sacred Spring: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles","authors":"C. Gruber","doi":"10.1163/9789004466739_021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466739_021","url":null,"abstract":"Among its vast collection of manuscripts, the Topkapı Palace Library in Istanbul preserves four large glass bottles filled with devotional objects and ornaments. Three of these bottles contain hilyes, or verbal descriptions of the Prophet Muḥammad, while a fourth contains a miniature Qurʾān displayed on a wooden stand decorated with colorful beads (Figure 18.1). Executed by the under-glass painter Muḥammad Rifʿat and dated 1308/1891, the Qurʾān bottle has at least four companion pieces held in two other museums in Istanbul.1 Although Qurʾān bottles will not be discussed in the present essay, their production alongside hilye bottles suggests that these glass containers were intended to house both the icons of God (via His holy book) and the Prophet (via his verbal icon). At present, hilye bottles remain understudied. While about a dozen exist in international collections,2 one bottle emerged on the art market some years ago under the title “lodge hilye” (tekke hilyesi)3 and another hilye bottle dated 1219/1804–5 is currently on display in the Mevlevihane Museum in Galata, Istanbul.4 As is evident from the Topkapı Palace materials, however, hilye","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124671938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Religious Revival (tajdīd) and Politics in Contemporary Morocco","authors":"Rachida Chih","doi":"10.1163/9789004466753_016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466753_016","url":null,"abstract":"The most popular of the so-called Islamist movements in Morocco, Justice and Spirituality (al-ʿAdl wa-l-Iḥsān), was not born out of opposition to Sufism, as was the case for most such theological and political movements in the contemporary Muslim world, which have rejected Sufi practices as reprehensible innovations (bidʿa). On the contrary, it was inspired by Islamic spirituality and the Sufi concept of imitation of the Prophet (ittibāʾ al-nabī) in the interior lives of believers as in their outward acts. The founder of this movement, Shaykh Abdessalam Yassine (d. 2012), laid claim to the earthly heritage of the Prophet, in competition with both Morocco’s monarchy, to which he was openly opposed, and the Sufi brotherhoods from which he sprang and ultimately distanced himself. Unlike the monarchy, Shaykh Yassine does not justify his Prophetic legitimacy by means of sharaf genealogy (although he nevertheless remembered to underline the fact that he was also a descendant of the Prophet, in the Idrīsid branch), but because of his exemplary conduct, conforming in every way to the Muḥammadan model. In addition, his mission is different from that of the monarchy, which exercises political power, or that of his original Sufi brotherhood, the Qādiriyya-Būdshīshiyya, which teaches spiritual progression and realisation: Yassine worked towards reform and social justice, which may explain why his teachings have mostly been studied by sociologists or political scientists.1 Yassine’s ideas were not restricted to the field of politics, in which his positions earned him the status of principal opponent of the monarchy. Above all a man of religion, very heavily influenced by or even impregnated with Sufism, he was a major Muslim thinker of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and author of an important body of work that is much discussed at international conferences. The Qādiriyya-Būdshīshiyya Sufi brotherhood and Justice and","PeriodicalId":332294,"journal":{"name":"The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114675072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}