The volume's unifying theme, inspired by the scholarly legacy of Professor Devin DeWeese, and indeed the subject of all the contributions, is the history of religion among the Muslim peoples of Inner and Central Asia, grounded in ignored or hitherto unknown indigenous sources. Individually, and as a whole, the articles pay tribute to DeWeese’s pathbreaking contributions to the disciplines of history and religious studies by exploring new approaches and new sources to build on this legacy. The volume pays particular attention to DeWeese's point d'appui: the centrality of Sufism in the region's religious, social, and literary history.
The volume’s focus is thus twofold: to bring a new set of rich, largely unused materials into the scholarly domain among specialists on Central Asia, and to challenge historians of Islam to recognize that understanding the religious history of Central Asia, and Sufism in particular, is crucial in evaluating the Islamic world as a whole.
Contributors:
Peter B. Golden, Jürgen Paul, Ron Sela, Nicholas Walmsley, Jo-Ann Gross, Daniel Beben, Jeff Eden, Jamal Elias, Michael Kemper, Paolo Sartori, Eren Tasar, Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Allen J. Frank
Author(s): Eren Tasar, Allen J. Frank, Jeff Eden
Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 480
Contents
Preface. Devin DeWeese
Introduction. Devin DeWeese as a Scholar (Tasar and Frank)
Devin DeWeese: List of Publications
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1. Reflections on the Ethnonym Türk (Golden)
Chapter 2. Aymāq in 16th-Century Persian Sources from Central Asia (Paul)
Chapter 3. The “Sultans of the Turks” (Sela)
Chapter 4. “A Lover Speaks” (Walmsley)
Chapter 5. Sayyid Muḥammad Iṣfahānī (Shāh Kāshān) (Gross)
Chapter 6. After the Eclipse (Beben)
Chapter 7. Saints, Lost and Found: The Discovery of Sacred Graves in Sufi Hagiography (Eden)
Chapter 8. Commentary as Method vs Genre (Elias)
Chapter 9. Sufi Saint or Salafī Reformer? (Kemper)
Chapter 10. “On the Importance of Having a Method” (Sartori)
Chapter 11. Atheist and Muslim (Tasar)
Chapter 12. Holy Virgin Lands? (Dudoignon)
Chapter 13. Sayaq Ata and the Antelopes (Frank)
Index
