The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam

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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