The Politics of Sufism and Ḥasidut in Medieval Egypt
The present article is, firstly, a review of a recent publication by Elisha Russ-Fishbane that will, secondly, seek to develop an entanglement perspective on piety in the Ayyubid age. Elisha Russ-Fishbane’s book offers the first systematic presentation of the Jewish pietist movement in late twelfth-...
| Published in: | Entangled Religions |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
[2017]
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Entangled Religions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt
/ Ayyūb Ayyubid Empire, Sultan -1249
/ Judaism
/ Fundamentalism
/ Germany
/ Pietism
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| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Jewry
B medieval Egypt B Copts B Piety B Ayyubids B Sufism |
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| Summary: | The present article is, firstly, a review of a recent publication by Elisha Russ-Fishbane that will, secondly, seek to develop an entanglement perspective on piety in the Ayyubid age. Elisha Russ-Fishbane’s book offers the first systematic presentation of the Jewish pietist movement in late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Egypt. It is largely based on a selection of Genizah documents, the writings of the movement’s pivotal figures, as well as a synthetic and critical discussion of the disparate remarks in previous publications. The present text will seek to summarize Russ-Fishbane’s book, discuss it in relation to other pertinent literature, and suggest some thoughts on Jewish-Muslim relations, parallels to Jewish pietism in Germany, and the book’s relevance for the perspective of entanglement. |
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13154/er.v4.2017.54-89 |