Popular culture in medieval Cairo /

Shoshan, Boaz.

Popular culture in medieval Cairo / Boaz Shoshan. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993. - xv, 148 p. ; 23 cm. - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization .

Sufism and the people -- Al-Bakri's biography of Muhammad -- The festival of Nawruz: A world turned upside down -- The politics and 'moral economy' of the Cairene crowd -- Popular culture and high culture in medieval Cairo -- Sufi Shaykhs in medieval Cairo.

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Islamic civilization.


Cairo (Egypt)--Social life and customs.
Cairo (Egypt)--Civilization.

DT146 / .S54 1993

962.1602