Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
Bibliography
Session 2 (September 16, 2014)
Peter Gran, Islamic Roots of Capitalism, Egypt, 1760-1840, Syracuse University
Press, 1998 [first published in 1979]: Preface and Introduction, pp. IX-XLI; A Note
on Critical Reception, pp. XLIII-L; Introduction to the Original Edition, pp. LI-LVII.
John O. Voll, Hadith Scholars and Tariqahs: An Ulama Group in the Eighteenth
Century Haramayn and their Impact in the Muslim World, Journal of Asian and
African Studies 15 (1980), pp. 264-273.
Nehemia Levtzion and John O. Voll, Introduction, in Nehemiah Levtzion and John
O. Voll (eds.), Eighteenth-Century Renewal and Reform in Islam (Syracuse, New
York: Syracuse University Press, 1987), pp. 3-20.
Session 3 (September 23, 2014)
Reinhard Schulze, Das islamische 18. Jahrhundert: Versuch einer
historiographischen Kritik,
Die Welt des Islams 30 (1990), pp. 140-149 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/1571050
Idem, Was ist die islamische Aufklaerung? Die Welt des Islams 36 (1996), pp. 276325.
Idem, Introduction, in idem, A Modern History of the Islamic World [New York: New
York University Press, 2000], p. 1-13. [This book is a translation of the German text
published in 1995 by C.H. Becksche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, Muenchen].
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culture and the relation between saints and the Prophet as well as between the
saints and the jurists, drawing also on other chapters of the Ibriz.
Session 8 (October 28, 2014): we will continue the discussion of the Ibriz under
the same aspects as in session 7.
Session 9 (November 4, 2014) to Session 11 (November 18, 2014):
Bernd Radtke, John OKane, Knut S. Vikr and R.S. OFahey, The Exotic Ahmad Ibn
Idris. A Sufis Critique of the Madhahib& the Wahhabis [Leiden: Brill, 2000]. This
book has to be read in its entirety. Its texts clarify the position of Ahmad Ibn Idris
against the legal methodology and the jurists.
The same holds true for R.S.OFahey, Enigmatic Saint. Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi
Tradition [London: Hurst & Company, 1990] on the biography of Ahmad ibn Idris and
the role his students played in Eighteeenth-century mysticism.
Session 12 (November 25, 2014): Nehemiah Levtzion and John OVoll (eds.),
Eighteenth-Century Renewal and Reform in Islam (op. cit.), in particular chapter 1:
Nehemia Levtzion, The Eighteenth-Century. Background to the Islamic Revolutions
in West Africa (pp. 21-38) and chapter 2: Louis Brenner,
Muslim Thought in Eighteenth-Century West Africa. The Case of Shaykh Uthman b.
Fudi (pp. 39-67).
See also chapters 5-7 in J. Spencer Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam [Oxford:
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1971], chapter 4: Nineteenth-Century Revival
Movements (pp. 105-132) and chapter 5: The Mysticism and Theosophy of the
Orders (pp. 133-165).