Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: The Piety of Learning

ʿIlm, Adab, Education

Chapter 1 ʿIlm and Adab Revisited: Knowledge Transmission and Character Formation in Islamic Africa

Chapter 2 From the Intellectual Powerhouse of Ilorin (Nigeria): Elegy in the Work of Adam ʿAbdallāh al-Ilūrī (1917–1992)

Chapter 3 The Khādimīs of Konya: The Rise of a Scholarly Family from the Ottoman Periphery

Chapter 4 Moral Education in Central Asia, 19th–21st Centuries: The Foundations for Sufi, Jadīd, Soviet, National, and Islamist Ethics

Sufi Dynamics

Chapter 5 The Small World of Aḥmad al-Ṣāwī (1761–1825), an Egyptian Khalwatī Shaykh

Chapter 6 Abū l-Hudā al-Ṣayyādī and Ḥadīth

Chapter 7 Sayfallāh-Qāḍī Bashlarov: Sufi Networks between the North Caucasus and the Volga-Urals

Chapter 8 Against Leviathan: On the Ethics of Islamic Poetry in Soviet Russia

Unusual Encounters with Islam

Chapter 9 Blessing and Curse in the “Promised Land”: Jonas Korte’s Travels in the Ottoman Empire, 1737–1739

Chapter 10 Ömer Pasha Latas and the Ottoman Reform Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1850–1851)

Chapter 11 The Pilgrim’s Tale as a Means of Self-Promotion: Muḥammad Rashid̄ Riḍā’s Journey to the Ḥijāz (1916)

Chapter 12 Scholarly Exchange and Trade: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Naṣīf and His Letters to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Chapter 13 Rescuing the Tatar Muslim Heritage in the Soviet Union: The Expedition Diaries of Mirkasym A. Usmanov

Chapter 14 Islamic Theological Studies in Germany: A Discipline in the Making

Chapter 15 Stefan Reichmuth’s Wanderings in Arabicized and Islamized Yorubaland

Bibliography of Printed Works

Index of Personal Names

Index of Place Names