The Logic behind the Succession of Saintliness among the Bedouins of the Western Desert of Egypt : An Integration of the theories of Arab Descent and Islamic Saint Veneration

通过对埃及西部沙漠贝都因人中“穆拉比廷”人所处的社会边缘地位的分析，本研究试图整合阿拉伯血统理论和伊斯兰教圣人崇拜理论。它有助于澄清这样一个事实，即圣徒的后裔群体是穆拉比特人的原型，因为他们既体现了伊斯兰教义中圣徒的边缘性，也体现了阿拉伯血统体系中附庸部落的边缘性。与此同时，这项研究在伊斯兰教圣人崇拜研究中引入了一种罕见的情况，这种情况缺乏苏菲派或伊斯兰教神秘主义的因素，数据的数字化，包括首席调查员自1988年以来在贝都因人中收集的实地笔记和照片，几乎已经完成。尽管如此，仍然需要对数据进行更精确的交叉引用。遗憾的是，贝都因人传统仪式歌曲的翻译仍然不完整，这是因为土著助手的合作-这是一个不可或缺的因素-没有得到充分保障。2001年10月在日本木更津举行的“迈向伊斯兰地区研究的新视野”，以及2002年9月在德国美因茨举行的第一届中东研究世界大会。这些论文现在正被改写，以便沿着出版泰勒和弗朗西斯的论文集，那里的首席调查员碰巧是一名编辑。他还在准备三篇日语文章，涵盖这项研究的结果。这些资料将编入东京大学出版社定于2003年和2004年出版的题为“伊斯兰地区研究”的八卷丛书。

Through an analysis of the marginal position that is socially occupied by the "Murabiteen" people among the Bedouins of the Western Desert of Egypt, this research sought to integrate the theories of Arab descent and Islamic saint veneration. It served to clarify the fact that the descendant groups of saints are an archetype of the Murabiteen, because they embody both the marginality of the saints in the Islamic doctrines, and that of the client tribes in the Arab descent system. At the same time, the research introduced into studies on Islamic saint veneration a rare case, which lacked an element of Sufism or Islamic mysticism.Digitalization of the data, including field notes and photos which the head investigator had collected among the Bedouins since 1988, was almost completed. All the same though a more refined cross referencing of the data needs to be done. Unfortunately the translation of traditional Bedouin ritual songs has remained incomplete, due to the fact that the cooperation of native assistants, an indispensable factor, was not adequately secured.A fruit of the research was the fact that the head investigator read papers at two international symposiums, one entitled "The Dynamism of Muslim Societies : Toward New Horizons in Islamic Area Studies," which was held at Kisarazu in Japan in October, 2001, and the other being the first World Congress of Middle East Studies at Mainz in Germany, on September, 2002. Those papers are now being rewritten for publication along with a collection of treatises by Taylor & Francis, where the head investigator happens to be an editor. He is also preparing three articles in Japanese encompassing the results of this research. These are due for inclusion in an eight volume series of books entitled "Islamic Area Studies," scheduled for publication by the University of Tokyo Press in 2003 and 2004.