TY - JOUR AU - Bentlage, Björn AU - Necker, Gerold PY - 2017/07/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Politics of Sufism and Ḥasidut in Medieval Egypt JF - Entangled Religions JA - ER VL - 4 IS - SE - Miscellaneous DO - 10.13154/er.v4.2017.54-89 UR - https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/795 SP - 54-89 AB - The present article is, firstly, a review of a recent publication by Elisha Russ-Fishbane that will, secondly, seek to develop an entanglement perspective on piety in the Ayyubid age. Elisha Russ-Fishbane’s book offers the first systematic presentation of the Jewish pietist movement in late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Egypt. It is largely based on a selection of Genizah documents, the writings of the movement’s pivotal figures, as well as a synthetic and critical discussion of the disparate remarks in previous publications. The present text will seek to summarize Russ-Fishbane’s book, discuss it in relation to other pertinent literature, and suggest some thoughts on Jewish-Muslim relations, parallels to Jewish pietism in Germany, and the book’s relevance for the perspective of entanglement. ER -