Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Jonathan Berkey, Popular Preaching 

and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East

(Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 

2001); Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet’s Pulpit: Islamic 

Preaching in Contemporary Egypt (Berkeley: University 

of California Press, 1994). Ibn al-Jawzi, Kitab al-qussas 

w’al-mudhakkirin (The Book of Storytellers and Popular 

Preachers). Edited and translated by Merlin L. Swartz 

(Beirut: Dar al-Machreq, 1986); Linda G. Jones, “The 

Boundaries of Sin and Communal Identity: Muslim and 

Christian Preaching and the Transmission of Cultural 

Identity in Medieval Iberia and the Maghreb (12th to 

15th Centuries).” Ph.D. dissertation (unpublished), 

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004.