CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Çetinbaş, Eylül |
|---|---|
| Title | A Bride of Christ and an Intercessor of Muhammad: Comparative Saints' Cults of St. Catherine of Alexandria and Rabi'a of Basra in the Middle Ages |
| Summary | This thesis is an attempt to fathom the ways through which the female sanctity was manifested in the medieval Christian and Islamic religious practice and thought. The hagiographical productions on the lives of St. Catherine of Alexandria and Rabi’a of Basra from the late sixth to the fifteenth centuries retransformed the notion of female sainthood and appropriated the changing hagiographical dynamics for the turning points in the Byzantine society and the Islamic world that are the Byzantine Iconoclasm, the Byzantine-Arab wars, the Arab conquest of the Byzantine East, and the Crusades. Followin the scrutiny of the hagiographical sources, the thesis will trace the cults of St. Catherine and Rabi’a through hagiography including the manaqib, tabaqat and tadhkirah writings, onomastics, church dedications, theological treatises and pilgrimage accounts. The final comparison achieved by applying the Freiberger-method will attest to the formidable scale of the cults of St. Catherine and Rabi’a, and their extension to the Christian and Muslim societies. The mosaic of religious values embodied in the female saints, moderate and hostile cultural interactions evolving around the religious ne plus ultras will prioritize the need for re-evaluation and recognition of comparative hagiology and cult of saints. |
| Supervisor | Klaniczay, Gábor; Börekçi, Günhan |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/cetinbas_eylul.pdf |
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