Spiritual and political revolutions in Islam / by Vályi, Felix

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Egyptian mysteries : new light on ancient spiritual knowledge / by Lamy, Lucie

Demons and the making of the monk : spiritual combat in early Christianity / by Brakke, David

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Demons and the making of the monk : spiritual combat in early Christianity / by Brakke, David

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Women and demons : cult healing in Islamic Egypt / by Sengers, Gerda

Subjects: “…Spiritual healing Egypt.…”

Zar spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt / by El Hadidi, Hager

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Sufism, mystics, and saints in modern Egypt / by Hoffman, Valerie J. 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Sufism in an age of change -- Among the Sufis: experiences, methods, and approach -- The prophet Muhammad and his family in Egyptian Sufism -- The saints: bearers of the prophetic light -- The Sufi orders -- Foundations of the Sufi path -- Mystical concepts and practices in Egyptian Sufism -- Women and sexuality in Sufi life and thought -- Models of sainthood -- The life and influence of Shaykh Muhammad Authman Al-burhani -- Coptic Christianity and popular Islam in Egypt, elements of a common spirituality -- Conclusion: Sufism in modern Egypt.…”
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Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismā'īlī tradition / by Alexandrin, Elizabeth R.

Table of Contents: “…Walayah in practice -- The Majalis al-Mu'ayyadiyyah -- The sphere of walayah -- Sealing walayah and spiritual resurrection.…”
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The city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti : Amarna and its people / by Kemp, Barry J.

Table of Contents: “…The Cast of characters -- City of the horizon -- Building a vision -- Akhenaten's resources -- The city of the Sun-God -- The apartments of the Pharaoh -- City of people -- The quality of life -- Spiritual life at Amarna -- What kinds of city? -- An end and a beginning.…”

Christians in Egypt : Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant communities, past and present / by Meinardus, Otto F. A., 1925-2005

Table of Contents: “…Egyptian Christians as heirs of a pharaonic heritage -- Egyptian Christians as citizens of an Islamic society in the Middle Ages -- The Christian churches in Egypt -- Christian agencies, social and ecumenical organizations -- Christian feasts and fasts -- The hierarchs of the churches represented in Egypt -- Postscript: multicultural and ecumenical spirituality in Egypt.…”
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Pharaoh's workers : the villagers of Deir el Medina /

Table of Contents: “…McDowell -- Foreigners living in the village / William A. Ward -- Spiritual and intellectual matters -- Aspects of domestic life and religion / Florence D. …”
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Writing the Sphinx : literature, culture and Egyptology / by Dobson, Eleanor

Table of Contents: “…'The sphinx will speak at last': Visions, Communications and Spiritual Experience -- Coda -- Appendix: 'Story of an Egyptian Necklace' -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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The Word in the desert : scripture and the quest for holiness in early Christian monasticism / by Christie, Douglas E.

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Popular Dance and Music in Modern Egypt. by Zuhur, Sherifa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and notes on music and transliteration -- The 'Awalim's path to the Sala -- From the Sala to the silver screen and beyond -- Ya Dall'a, Ya Dall'a : demeanor and flirtation -- Mulid : reinvigorating spiritual and popular legitimacy in Egyptian music and dance -- From Sha'bi music and culture to Mahragan dance music -- Raqs wa Musiqa Sha'biyya : Egypt's regional dances and music in transition -- Bad, Bad Baladi : Sama al-Masry and dance as sarcasm -- Raqs Sha'bi wa Musiqa Sha'biyya : Egypt's regional and particularist dances and music in transition.…”
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Selected discourses of Shenoute the Great : community, theology, and social conflict in late Antique Egypt / by Shenute, Saint, approximately 348-466

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The Arabic Freud : psychoanalysis and Islam in modern Egypt / by El Shakry, Omnia S., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 3 The Psychosexual Subject Languages of Desire; The Sexual Drive; The Spiritual Physick; The Psychology of (the Female) Gender; Same-Sex Desire ; Technologies of the Self; Conclusion; CHAPTER 4 Psychoanalysis before the Law ; Psychoanalysis, Crime, and Culpability.…”
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The modern neighbors of Tutankhamun : history, life, and work in the villages of the Theban West Bank / by Van der Spek, Kees

Table of Contents: “…Ancient remains as life's stage : differing perspectives on life in the Theban Necropolis -- The natural and social setting of the Theban West Bank communities -- Early European travelers and the emergence of the Theban communities in the consciousness of the West -- "In justice to the inhabitants of Gournei" : European presence and its literary record -- Protected space as domestic place : human presence and the emergence of the built environment in the Theban Necropolis -- Qurnawi foothills architecture : footprint, form, and function -- Agriculture, conflict, and the maintenance of stable social relations -- All in a season's work : Egyptology-induced labor relations at al-Hurubat -- Faked antikas and 'modern antiques' : artistic expression in the villages of the Theban West Bank -- Contemporary spirituality and traditional beliefs in the Theban Necropolis -- The ethnography of eviction -- Appendix 1. …”
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Christianity and monasticism in Aswan and Nubia /

Table of Contents: “…Richter -- A foreshadowing of the desert spirituality in ancient Nubia and Upper Egypt / Ashraf Alexandre Sadek -- Contested frontiers : southern Egypt and northern Nubia, AD 300-1500 : the evidence of the inscriptions / Jacques van der Vliet -- The veneration of saints in Aswan and Nubia / Youhanna Nessim Youssef -- Dayr al-Kubbaniya : review of the documentation on the "Isisberg" Monastery ; The development of the church at Dayr Anba Hadra : a study of the plasterwork and dated inscriptions ; An updated plan of the church at Dayr Qubbat al-Hawa / Renate Dekker -- The Christian wall paintings from the Temple of Isis at Aswan revisited / Jitse H.E. …”
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Sanctity and mysticism in medieval Egypt : the Wafāʼ Sufi order and the legacy of Ibn ʻArabī / by McGregor, Richard J. A.

Table of Contents: “…Sanctity and Muhammad Wafa' -- Absolute Being and Its Self-disclosure -- The Preexistential and the Everlasting -- Spiritual Anthropology -- Cosmology -- The Teaching Shaykh and Beyond -- The Muhammadan Reality and the Pole -- Sanctity, the Renewer, and the Seal -- 6. …”
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Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani Order : power brokers in Ottoman Egypt / by Emre, Side

Table of Contents: “…-- A critical evaluation of sources -- Organization of the book -- Gulseni's biography in the hagiographical imagination (ca. 846-916/1442-1510) -- A road map to the interpretation of Gulseni's early life -- Beginnings of a lifelong engagement in politics and mysticism : an interpretive analysis of Gulseni's Aqquyunlu years (ca. 846-905/1442-1500) -- Diyarbakir as failed shelter : Ibrahim in Anatolia (ca. 905-16/1500-10) -- Reasons for Ibrahim's avoidance of Ottoman realms -- Arrival in a safe haven : Gulseni's early years in Mamluk Egypt (913 or -- 916-923/1507 or 1510-17) -- A sacred land, a holy man, and a mission -- Egypt : the land of myth and promises -- Perspectives on Gulseni's reception in Cairo and interactions with the Alveti peers as a segue to relations with the Mamluks -- Gulseni's relationships with the last two Mamluk rulers -- Gulseni and al-Ghawri : a complex friendship as depicted in the hagiographies -- Suspicious counsel on a sensitive topic and the consequences for Gulseni -- Gulseni and Uman Bay : a tale of persecution -- Observations about the end of the Mamluks -- After the Ottoman conquest : a new life begins (923-31/1517-25) -- The 923/1517 Ottoman conquest of Egypt in historiography, the Messianic conqueror, and a Alveti saint -- Under layers of hagiographical revision : Gulseni on the Ottomans and the repercussions of a controversial marriage -- Recruiting Mamluk and Ottoman soldiers : Gulseni's strategies to secure protection and patronage -- Gulseni's Melami Mesreb -- The establishment of the Gulseniye lodge complex (925-31/1519-25) -- Bab Zuwayla : a historic gate of eclectic symbolism -- The Cairo Gulseniye lodge (Tk. tekye) : the land and the deed -- Patterns of patronage -- Issues surrounding terminology and function -- Architecture as evidence of power -- Heresy, religious innovation, and law in Egypt (928-31/1522-25) -- The curious case of Gulseni's heresy in historical records : a textual analysis -- The background to heresy accusations against Gulseni -- An alleged heretic in action : discourses to define heresy, Gulseni's interlocutors, and their claims -- Muyi's defense of Gulseni -- A carefully crafted piety : a review of the origins of Gulseni's spirituality, literary inspirations, and select ouvre -- Who is an ideal sufi? …”
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