Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE State-sponsored Sufism: The Sufis of the Khānqāh Saʿīd al-Su ʿadāʾ
6. 1 The Khānqāh 35
7. 2 The Sufis of the Khānqāh 61
8. 3 What is Popular about the Khānqāh? 90
9. PART TWO State-sanctioned Sufism: The Nascent Shādhilīya
10. 4 The Emergence of the Shādhilīya in Egypt 105
11. 5 Al-Iskandarī’s Image of the Shādhilī Tarīqa 129
12. 6 The Popularisation of Shādhilī Sufism 160
13. PART THREE Unruly Sufism: The Sufis of Upper Egypt
14. 7 The Regional Context of Upper-Egyptian Sufism 181
15. 8 Sufi Activists and Enforcers 202
16. 9 Wonder-working Sufis 225
17. Concluding Remarks 250
18. Works Cited 258
19. Index 295