Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes

Daphna Ephrat, Ph.D. (1993), is Associate Professor of history at the Open University of Israel. She has written widely on the formation of religious leadership and associations in the medieval Islamic Near East, including Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety (Harvard UP, 2009).Ethel Sara Wolper, Ph.D. (1990), is Associate Professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia (Penn State University Press, 2003) and has published widely on Islamic architecture and religious communities in the medieval and early modern Islamic world.Paulo G. Pinto, Ph.D. (2002), is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in Syria, Iraq, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, and is the co-editor of Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).

• List of Figures and MapsA Note on Transliteration, Names, and TranslationIntroductionPART 1: Creation and Revitalization1 The Creation of Spheres of Spiritual Domination and Sanctity in Medieval Syrian Landscapes: Hagiographical Narratives and Historical LegaciesDaphna Ephrat2 The Creation and Institutionalization of the Sufi Landscape in Medieval Upper EgyptNathan Hofer3 The Cult of Saints and Shrine Architecture: The Making of Funeral Centers of Devotion in the Medieval Muslim WestBulle Tuil Leonetti4 A Saint “On the Move”: Traces in the Evolution of a Landscape of Religious Memory in the BalkansSara Kuehn5 The “Shrinescapes” and Narrative Traditions of Khoja Ishaq KhuttalaniJo-Ann Gross6 Encountering Saints in the Hallowed Ground of a Regional Landscape: The ‘Description of Khwārazm’ and the Experience of Pilgrimage in Nineteenth-Century Central AsiaDevin DeWeesePART 2: Spatial Formation and the Power of Place7 Sufi Buildings and Networks of Authority in Medieval AnatoliaEthel Sara Wolper8 Situating Iraqi Shrine Cities within the Alevi-Bektashi Sacred Landscape: Networks of Saintly Families Linking Anatolia to Karbala and Najaf in the Ottoman EraAyfer Karakaya-Stump9 “This is Makkah for Me!” Devotion in Architecture at the Makli Necropolis Fatima Quraishi10 “He who is the wondrous green dome is Ali”: The Relationship between Narratives of the Prophet Muhammad’s Ascension and the Communal Religious Architecture of the AlevisAngela Andersen11 Bombay Mystical City: Muslim Shrines and Saints in the Urban Fabric from 1800 to PresentAlexandre Papas12 Senegal’s Sufi Cities: Places beyond the StateEric RossPART 3: Transformation and Globalization13 Shifting Spheres along the Hajj Route from West Africa: The Case of the Tijaniyya during the Colonial PeriodIrit Back14 The Entire Land is My Lodge: Naqshbandi Responses to the Challenges of Modernity and GlobalizationItzchak Weismann15 Charisma’s Reach: Spiritual Travel and Material Flows in a Sufi Saint’s WilayatPnina Werbner16 “Diasporizing” Sainthood: Shaykh Ahmed, a Syrian ʿAlawi Saint in ArgentinaSilvia Montenegro17 Territories of Memory: Ritual and Dreams in the Making of a Contemporary Syrian SaintPaulo G. PintoIndex