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In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt

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Divinity Atlas. "In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/in-the-vicinity-of-the-righteous-ziyara-and-the-veneration-of-muslim-saints-in-late-medieval-egypt.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/in-the-vicinity-of-the-righteous-ziyara-and-the-veneration-of-muslim-saints-in-late-medieval-egypt

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  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/in-the-vicinity-of-the-righteous-ziyara-and-the-veneration-of-muslim-saints-in-late-medieval-egypt},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
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Christopher Taylor is a scholar of Islamic studies, and this academic book, published by Brill, a respected academic press for Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, examines the practice of ziyara, visiting the tombs of Muslim saints, in late medieval Egypt, using primary Arabic sources including pilgrimage guides and biographical dictionaries from the period. Its strength is close engagement with primary medieval Arabic sources describing how veneration of saints actually functioned in that specific society, including sources that debated the practice's legitimacy at the time. Its limit is chronological and geographic focus, it examines a specific place and period, late medieval Egypt, and its findings should not be extended without qualification to saint veneration practices in other regions or periods of Islamic history.

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Christopher Taylor's Brill scholarly study of ziyara, the veneration and visitation of Muslim saints' tombs, in late medieval Egypt.

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Scholarly study of ziyara, the veneration and visitation of Muslim saints' tombs, in late medieval Egypt. Use for established historical facts about saint veneration practice in that period and place.

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Author

Christopher S. Taylor

Publisher

Brill

Publication Year

1999

Source Type

academic monograph

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Egypt

This source names Egypt directly: "of Muslim saints, in late medieval Egypt, using primary Arabic sources including pilgrimage guides and biographical dictionaries from the period."

Source In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval EgyptChristopher S. Taylor

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