There is Matter for Thought

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, “There is Matter for Thought. The Episode of the Night Journey and the Heavenly Ascension in the Sīra ḥalabiyya, at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century”, in Denis Gril, Stefan Reichmuth and Dilek Sarmis (dir.), The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, vol. I:

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Ethics and spirituality in Islam

Francesco Chiabotti, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen et Luca Patrizi (éd.), Ethics and spirituality in Islam: Sufi adab, Brill, Leyde, 2016, 792 pages. The notion of adab is at the heart of Arab-Islamic culture. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilization, nourished by Greek and Indian influences, this polysemic

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Sufism, literary production, and printing

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Rachida Chih and Rüdiger Seesemann (éd.), Sufism, literary production, and printing in the nineteenth century, (Mitteilungen zur sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, 37), Ergon Verlag, Würzburg, 579 pages, 2015. Contributions: Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, « Sufism and printing in nineteenth-century Egypt », Ibidem, p. 25s. Alberto F. Ambrosio, « The library of the

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Mrs. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

Send her an email: mayeur-jaouen@wanadoo.fr. Click here to see her authority record and list of publications on Diamond. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen is French and lives in Paris. Professor of modern and contemporary history of the Arab and Muslim world at the Sorbonne since 2017. Historian, specialist in religious history of the Arab

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