Writing about the Mawlid al-Sharīf in Eighth/Fourteenth-Century Maghrib: A Sufi-Legal Discourse

Recent scholarship on the relationship between premodern Sufism and Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) has highlighted the overlap between Sufis and jurists at the level of social and intellectual life. Despite this growing body of studies on Sufi-jurist dynamics, the role of Sufi metaphysics in this inte...

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Main Author: Atanasova, Kameliya (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 83-116
Further subjects:B Maghrib
B Islamic Law
B birthday of Muhammad (mawlid al-shārif)
B Sufism
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