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Sanctity is a concept recognized by Muslims throughout the Islamic world, and often motivates observances with highly localized characteristics. Julian Millie spent a year attending a supplication ritual in which Muslims of West Java directed their prayers to Allah through ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaelani (d. 1166). This man, whose tomb even today is a popular pilgrimage site in Baghdad, is widely considered the most powerful intercessor of all the saints of Islam. The supplication takes the form of reading or singing the narrative proofs of ‘Abd al-Qadir’s saintliness in a ritual context. The ritual has deep roots in the Sundanese culture of West Java. The book captures the variety of understandings that participants bring to the ritual when it is held in various contexts, including Java’s largest Sufi order, religious schools and private homes. This first, book-length study of intercession through ritual reading in Indonesia will be of interest to scholars of Indonesian religions, Sufism and the anthropology of Islam. It expands our knowledge of Sufism and sanctity, and seriously considers the liturgical forms of village Islam, paying special attention to the use of Arabic supplications in localized ritual practice.

Sufism --- Holiness --- Prayer --- Prayer (Islam) --- Holy, The --- Perfection --- Righteousness --- Sanctification --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Rituals. --- Islam. --- Religious aspects --- Islam --- ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, --- ʻAbd al-Kādir al-Djīlānī, --- Abdal Qadr Djilani, --- Abdul Kader Jilani, --- Abdul Qadir Geylani, --- Abdul Qadir Gilani, --- Abdülkadir Geylani, --- ʻAbdulqādir Jīlānī, --- Aptulkātir Jīlān̲ī, --- Djīlānī, ʻAbd al-Kādir, --- Djilani, Abdal Qadr, --- Geylani, Abdul Qadir, --- Geylani, Abdülkadir, --- Gīlānī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, --- Gilani, Abdul Qadir, --- Gilãni, Muhyiddeen Abdul-Qãdir, --- Gilani, Muhyuddin Abdul Qadir, --- Jelonī, Shaĭkh Abdulqodir, --- Jīlānī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, --- Jilani, Abdul Kader, --- Jilani, Abdul Qadir, --- Jīlānī, ʻAbdulqādir, --- Jīlān̲ī, Aptulkātir, --- Jīlānī, Sayyidnā Shaik̲h̲u ʻAbdulqādiru, --- Kīlānī, ʻAbd al-Qādir, --- Muhyuddin Abdul Qadir Gilani, --- Gaylani, 'Abd al-Qadir, --- 'Abd al-Qadir al-Gaylani, --- عبد القادر الجيلاني، --- ،عبدالقادر الجيلاني --- ،گيلاني، عبد القادر --- Cult --- Jawa Barat (Indonesia) --- West Java (Indonesia) --- J.A.B.A.R. --- JABAR --- Djawa Barat (Indonesia) --- Propinsi Jawa Barat (Indonesia) --- Provincial Government of West Java (Indonesia) --- Government of West Java Province (Indonesia) --- Religious life and customs. --- Sundanese (Indonesian people) --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Rituals --- Rites and ceremonies --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Azië --- Rites and ceremonies. --- عبد القادر الجيلاني, --- عبدالقادر الجيلاني, --- گيلاني، عبد القادر, --- عبد القادر گيلاني, --- عبد القادر گيلانى, --- گيلانى، عبد القادر, --- Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani,