October 31, 2004

Book | Mullas, Sufis and Heretics

Mavi Boncuk |

Martin van Bruinessen, Mullas, Sufis and Heretics: The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society. Collected articles. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2000. 322 pp., ills. ISBN 975-428-162-9.

Contents:

The religious mosaic
01. "Religion in Kurdistan"
02. "The Kurds and Islam"
03. "The Christians of Eastern Turkey, the state and the local power structure"

Learning and mysticism in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
04. "Religious life in Diyarbekir: religious learning and the role of the tariqats"
05. "The Naqshbandi order in 17th-century Kurdistan",
06. "The impact of Kurdish `ulama on Indonesian Islam"
07. "A nineteenth century Kurdish scholar in South Africa"

The social and political roles of sufi orders in Kurdistan
08. "Popular Islam, Kurdish nationalism and rural revolt: The rebellion of Shaikh Said in Turkey (1925)"
09. "Vom Osmanismus zum Separatismus: Religiöse und ethnische Hintergründe der Rebellion des Scheich Said"
10. "The Sadate Nehri or Gilanizade of Central Kurdistan"
11. "The Qadiriyya and the lineages of Qadiri shaykhs in Kurdistan"
12. "Sûfîs and sultâns in Southeast Asia and Kurdistan: a comparative survey"

Heterodox religious formations in Kurdistan
13. "When Haji Bektash still bore the name of Sultan Sahak. Notes on the Ahl-i Haqq of the Guran district"
14. "Haji Bektash, Sultan Sahak, Shah Mina Sahib and various avatars of a running wall"
15. "The Shabak, a Kizilbash community in Iraqi Kurdistan"

The book can be ordered by mail or email from:

The Isis Press,
Semsibey Sokak 10,
Beylerbeyi, 81210 Istanbul, Turkey
Fax: +90-216-321 86 66,
Email: isis@turk.net


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