The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta

The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of TantaEvery year, in Tanta, in the heart of the Nile Delta, a festival takes place that was for centuries the biggest in the Muslim world: the mulid of al Sayyid Ahmad al Badawi, a much loved saint who cures the impotent and renders barren women fertile. This study tells the history of a Sufi festival that for long overshadowed even the pilgrimage to Mecca. Catherine Mayeur Jaouen shows that the mulid does not stand in opposition to religious orthodoxy, but

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