Jonathan G Katz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1231725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan G Katz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan G |
| FAMILY NAME | Katz |
| SIGNATURE | KATZ J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2699-9708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Françoise Légey and Childbirth in Morocco
The pioneering French doctor Françoise Entz Légey (1876-1935) devoted her career in Algeria and Morocco to women's healthcare. Much acclaimed in her lifetime, and remembered today largely for her two books on Moroccan folklore, Légey established in Marrakesh a maternity hospital and a milk dispensary. She also embarked on a plan to instruct "modern" midwives to replace indigenous matrones and sages-femmes, known in Arabic as qablas. While Protect…
Conversion, intermarriage and the legal status of Jews in French Protectorate Morocco
In contrast to metropolitan France where Third-Republic notions of laïcité governed marriage and informed the civil code, French officials in Protectorate-era Morocco (1912–1956) found themselves committed to upholding a confessional system that treated Jewish and Muslim communities as distinct legal, political and social entities. While French efforts to create separate legal jurisdictions for Jews and Muslims served to reify the existing social…
Medicine and the Saints
Dreams, Sufism & Sainthood
Based on Muhammad al-Zawawi's extraordinary diary of 109 dream conversations with the Prophet Muhammad, this study provides a rare, intimate view of 15th-century North African Muslim life. The study reconstructs Zawawi's lifestory over a critical ten-year period and examines his career as a sufi in the historical context of North Africa and Mamluk Cairo. Psychological aspects of Zawawi's religious experience are thoroughly explored. The concludin…
An Egyptian Sufi Interprets His Dreams
This study presents a sampling of dreams as recounted in ‘Abd al-Wahhâb al-Sha‘rânâ's autobiography, Latâ’if al-minan. Examining the methodology employed by the 16th-century Cairene sheikh in interpreting his own dreams, the study places al-Sha‘rânâ within the context of sufi and medieval Islamic traditions of dream interpretation. The examples given by al-Sha‘rânânı demonstrate that he valued dreams not for their alleged ability to portend the f…
Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Egypt
Shaykh Ahmad's Dream
L'A. analyse les contenus thematiques des trois versions de la vision de Shaykh Ahmad Hamza. Cette vision contribue a alimenter le climat general d'attente millenariste. L'A. a divise son etude en cinq chapitres qui permettent de comparer les trois versions: le prologue qui decrit les circonstances de la vision, le blâme qui contient l'avertissement du prophete a la communaute, la confirmation ou le signe qui atteste de la veracite de la vision, …
Shaykh Ahmad's Dream
L'A. analyse les contenus thematiques des trois versions de la vision de Shaykh Ahmad Hamza. Cette vision contribue a alimenter le climat general d'attente millenariste. L'A. a divise son etude en cinq chapitres qui permettent de comparer les trois versions: le prologue qui decrit les circonstances de la vision, le blâme qui contient l'avertissement du prophete a la communaute, la confirmation ou le signe qui atteste de la veracite de la vision, …
An Egyptian Sufi Interprets His Dreams
This study presents a sampling of dreams as recounted in ‘Abd al-Wahhâb al-Sha‘rânâ's autobiography, Latâ’if al-minan. Examining the methodology employed by the 16th-century Cairene sheikh in interpreting his own dreams, the study places al-Sha‘rânâ within the context of sufi and medieval Islamic traditions of dream interpretation. The examples given by al-Sha‘rânânı demonstrate that he valued dreams not for their alleged ability to portend the f…
Shaykh Ahmad's Dream
L'A. analyse les contenus thematiques des trois versions de la vision de Shaykh Ahmad Hamza. Cette vision contribue a alimenter le climat general d'attente millenariste. L'A. a divise son etude en cinq chapitres qui permettent de comparer les trois versions: le prologue qui decrit les circonstances de la vision, le blâme qui contient l'avertissement du prophete a la communaute, la confirmation ou le signe qui atteste de la veracite de la vision, …
Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Egypt
Dreams, Sufism & Sainthood
Based on Muhammad al-Zawawi's extraordinary diary of 109 dream conversations with the Prophet Muhammad, this study provides a rare, intimate view of 15th-century North African Muslim life. The study reconstructs Zawawi's lifestory over a critical ten-year period and examines his career as a sufi in the historical context of North Africa and Mamluk Cairo. Psychological aspects of Zawawi's religious experience are thoroughly explored. The concludin…
An Egyptian Sufi Interprets His Dreams
This study presents a sampling of dreams as recounted in ‘Abd al-Wahhâb al-Sha‘rânâ's autobiography, Latâ’if al-minan. Examining the methodology employed by the 16th-century Cairene sheikh in interpreting his own dreams, the study places al-Sha‘rânâ within the context of sufi and medieval Islamic traditions of dream interpretation. The examples given by al-Sha‘rânânı demonstrate that he valued dreams not for their alleged ability to portend the f…
Medicine and the Saints
Conversion, intermarriage and the legal status of Jews in French Protectorate Morocco
In contrast to metropolitan France where Third-Republic notions of laïcité governed marriage and informed the civil code, French officials in Protectorate-era Morocco (1912–1956) found themselves committed to upholding a confessional system that treated Jewish and Muslim communities as distinct legal, political and social entities. While French efforts to create separate legal jurisdictions for Jews and Muslims served to reify the existing social…
Françoise Légey and Childbirth in Morocco
The pioneering French doctor Françoise Entz Légey (1876-1935) devoted her career in Algeria and Morocco to women's healthcare. Much acclaimed in her lifetime, and remembered today largely for her two books on Moroccan folklore, Légey established in Marrakesh a maternity hospital and a milk dispensary. She also embarked on a plan to instruct "modern" midwives to replace indigenous matrones and sages-femmes, known in Arabic as qablas. While Protect…
History (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (4 works) · Islam (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Dream (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)