L'autorité religieuse et ses limites en terres d'islam

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

approx. 280 pp. (in French), 15 illus.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English, French

Biographical note

Nathalie Clayer est directrice d’études à l’EHESS est directrice de recherches au CNRS (Paris). Ses publications, parmi lesquelles Aux origines du nationalisme albanais (Paris, Karthala, 2007), portent sur la religion, le nationalisme et la formation de l’Etat dans les Balkans et l’Empire ottoman.

Alexandre Papas est chargé de recherche au CNRS (Paris). Il a publié plusieurs livres et articles sur l'histoire de l'Asie centrale islamique dont Mystiques et vagabonds en islam (Cerf, 2010) et Central Asian Pilgrims (Klaus Schwarz, 2011).

Benoit Fliche est chercheur au CNRS (Paris). Il a publié plusieurs articles et ouvrage sur les migrations urbains et rurales en Turquie (CNRS Editions, 2007) et sur les pratiques sociales de la parenté (EJTS, 2006).

Nathalie Clayer is Professor at the EHESS and a senior research fellow at the CNRS (Paris). She has published on religion, nationalism and state-building process in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, including Aux origines du nationalisme albanais (Paris, Karthala, 2007).

Alexandre Papas, Ph.D. (2004), is Research Fellow at the CNRS in Paris. He has published books and articles on the history of Islamic Central Asia, including Mystiques et vagabonds en islam (Cerf, 2010) and Central Asian Pilgrims (Klaus Schwarz, 2011).

Benoît Fliche is Research fellow at the CNRS (Paris). He has published books and articles on rural and urban migrations in Turkey (CNRS Editions, 2007) and on social practices of kinship (EJTS, 2006).

Readership

Anyone interested in the religious history and anthropology of the Middle East, Southeastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as in political and Islamic studies.

Tout lecteur s'intéressant à l'histoire et à l'anthropologie religieuses du Moyen-Orient, de l'Europe du sud-est et de l'Asie centrale, ainsi qu'aux études politiques et islamiques.

Remerciements
Notes de translittération
Introduction
Première partie: L’autorité religieuse et le pouvoir politique : un couple polymorphe
1. Cheikhs et sultans en Asie centrale au XVIe siècle : une analyse de la Risâla-yi tanbîh al-salâtîn d’Ahmad Kâsânî Dahbidî - Alexandre Papas
2. Réseaux et carrières à al-Azhar au XVIIe siècle : l’ascension du cheikh Ahmad al-Dardîr (1715-1786) - Rachida Chih
3. Le sheikh ul-islâm et l’ambassadeur. De l’autorité religieuse à la diplomatie - Gilles Veinstein
4. Le sultan et l’hégoumène de Patmos - Nicolas Vatin
5. Le clergé latin et son autorité dans l’Empire ottoman (XVe-XVIIe siècles): protégé des puissances de l’Europe catholique ? - Elisabetta Borromeo
Deuxième partie: Les métamorphoses de l’autorité religieuse : ruptures et réparations
6. Le Reis et le voile : une polémique religieuse dans la Bosnie-Herzégovine de l’entre-deux-guerres - Xavier Bougarel
7. Autorité locale et autorité supra-locale chez les Bektashis d’Albanie dans l’entre-deux-guerres - Nathalie Clayer
8. Mais où sont les dede d’antan ? Les transformations de l’autorité religieuse chez des Alévis d’Anatolie centrale (1919-2009) - Benoît Fliche
9. Neden bu ikilik ? « Pourquoi cette dualité ?» Ethnographie de la division dans un village bektashi du Taurus - Jérôme Cler
10. L’autorité religieuse féminine dans le soufisme contemporain à Istanbul - Anna Neubauer

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