“POPULAR” RELIGION IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
GENERAL WORKS TO BE READ FIRST:
Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. [Volumes 1 and 2]
Lapidus, Ira M. A History of Islamic Societies. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002.
POPULAR RELIGION: SUFISM, MYSTICISM AND SHRINE VISITATION
to be read in order:
Renard, John. Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood. 1.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Brown, Peter. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. Haskell lectures
on history of religions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. [For its discussion of
“popular” religion as a construct]
Karamustafa, Ahmet T. God's Unruly Friends : Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle
Period, 1200-1550. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994.
Trimingham, J. Spencer. The Sufi Orders in Islam. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
Chodkiewicz, Michel. Seal of the Saints: Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn
Arabī. Golden palm series. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993.
Taylor, Christopher Schurman. In the Vicinity of the Righteous : Ziy*Ara and the Veneration of
Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt. Islamic history and civilization. Studies and
Texts, v. 22. Leiden: Brill, 1998.
Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian, “Deviant Dervishes: Space, Gender, And The Construction Of
Antinomian Piety In Ottoman Aleppo,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 37,
no. 4 (2005): 535-565.
Meri, Josef W. The Cult of Saints Among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria. Oxford England;
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Memon, Muhammad Umar, and Ahmad ibn Abd al-Hal im Ibn Taym*iyah. Ibn Taim*iya's
struggle against popular religion : with an annotated translation of his Kit*ab iqti*d*a*
a*s-*sir*a*t al-mustaqu*im mukh*alafat a*s*h*ab al-ja*h*im. The Hague: Mouton,
1976.
Zilfi, Madeline C. The Politics of Piety: The Ottoman Ulema in the Postclassical Age (16001800). Studies in Middle Eastern History; No. 8. Minneapolis, MN: Bibliotheca Islamica,
1988.[Especially the chapter on the Kadizadeli movement]
Schielke, Samuli. “Hegemonic Encounters: Criticism of Saints-Day Festivals and the Formation
of Modern Islam in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Egypt.” Die Welt des Islams 47
(November 2007): 319–55.
Ahmed, Shahab. “Ibn Taymiyyah and the Satanic Verses.” Studia Islamica, no. 87 (1998): 67–
124.
to be read last as a summary:
Berkey, Jonathan Porter. The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 6001800. Themes in Islamic history; v. 2. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.