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By Steven Engler et al. (eds.)
This choice of essays analyzes ‛tradition’ as a class within the ancient and comparative examine of faith. The ebook questions the typical assumption that culture is just the “passing down” or imitation of past practices and discourses. It starts from the basis that many traditions are, no less than partially, social fabrications, frequently intentionally serving specific ideological ends. person chapters learn a wide selection of ancient classes and religions (Congolese, Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Cree, Esoteric, Hawaiian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, New spiritual circulate, and Shinto). diverse sections of the e-book think of tradition's relation to 3 units of matters: legitimation and authority; employer and identification; modernity and the West.
Diese Aufsatzsammlung analysiert ‚Tradition' als Kategorie der historischen und vergleichenden Religionswissenschaft. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, viele Traditionen seien, zumindest teilweise, gesellschaftliche Erfindungen, die oftmals ideologischen Sonderinteressen dienen, wird eine große Vielfalt von Religionen und historischer Epochen behandelt.
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Despite the fact that Ibn al-Hajj's account tells one little in particular about the identity of the celebrants whom he depicts, and despite the fact that it offers no way of determining how widespread these practices may have been, his discussion suggests that by the fourteenth century at the latest Cairenes did in fact commemorate the Night of the Ascension. It furthermore suggests that Ibn al-Hajj and some of his peers sharply disagreed on the proper way to observe that festival. One may surmise that Ibn al-Hajj's account distorts or exaggerates the practices of his contemporaries in order to discredit them in the eyes of other Muslims.
Headley links this trend to platonic views of founding legislators. This view is still very much alive in Eastern Orthodoxy, where such consensus is strongly believed in but rarely verified. The same can be said of the Muslim view of the consensus (ijma) of the believers. For a study of the impact of the scriptural principle on the West, see Kort 1996. For instance, the Encyclicals Spiritus Paraclitus of Benedict XV (1920) and Humani of Pius XII (1950). 15 21:19 Tradition 25 stated, tradizione c'e io, echoing the well-known formula of royal absolutism, I'Etat c'est moi.
Muhammad b. Muhammad Fasi 'Abdari (d. 1336). The name "Ibn al-Hajj" is no more than a nickname by which this Muhammad 'Abdari became famous. As the portion of his full name "Fasi" indicates, Ibn al-Hajj's family probably came from the city of Fez, which is located in present-day Morocco. His family ancestry notwithstanding, Ibn al-Hajj seems to have been born and spent most of his life in Egypt. He became a prominent student and colleague of the famous Sufi scholar Ibn Abi Jamra (d. 1300), and he was said to have died in Cairo at the age of eighty (Brockelmann 1936, vol.