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- catalog abstract ""Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Near East. Jonathan Berkey's book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, sermons, and tales, but especially on a number of medieval treatises critical of popular preachers, and also on a vigorous defense of them that emerged in fourteenth-century Egyptian Sufi circles."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12171240.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Islamic popular preachers and storytellers had enormous influence in defining common religious knowledge and faith in the medieval Near East. Jonathan Berkey's book illuminates the popular culture of religious storytelling. It draws on chronicles, biographical dictionaries, sermons, and tales, but especially on a number of medieval treatises critical of popular preachers, and also on a vigorous defense of them that emerged in fourteenth-century Egyptian Sufi circles."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-135) and index.".
- catalog description "Origins and Early Controversy --- Storytelling and Preaching in the Late Middle Period --- The Social and Political Context of Preaching --- Storytelling, Preaching, and Knowledge --- Conclusion: Storytelling, Preaching, and the Problem of Religious Authority in Medieval Islam.".
- catalog extent "xii, 143 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0295981261 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Publications on the Near East".
- catalog isPartOf "Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press,".
- catalog subject "297.3/7/0902 21".
- catalog subject "BP184.25 .B47 2001".
- catalog subject "Islamic civilization.".
- catalog subject "Islamic preaching.".
- catalog subject "Storytelling Religious aspects Islam.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Origins and Early Controversy --- Storytelling and Preaching in the Late Middle Period --- The Social and Political Context of Preaching --- Storytelling, Preaching, and Knowledge --- Conclusion: Storytelling, Preaching, and the Problem of Religious Authority in Medieval Islam.".
- catalog title "Popular preaching and religious authority in the medieval Islamic Near East / Jonathan P. Berkey.".
- catalog type "text".