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Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Release : 1972
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 276/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Scholars, Saints, and Sufis by : Nikki R. Keddie
Download or read book Scholars, Saints, and Sufis written by Nikki R. Keddie. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle East officially Near East.
Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Release : 1978
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Book Synopsis Scholars, Saints, and Sufis by : Nikki R. Keddie
Download or read book Scholars, Saints, and Sufis written by Nikki R. Keddie. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Kugle
Release : 2011-09-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Sufis and Saints' Bodies by : Scott Kugle
Download or read book Sufis and Saints' Bodies written by Scott Kugle. This book was released on 2011-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power. Sufis and Saints' Bodies focuses on six important saints from Sufi communities in North Africa and South Asia. Kugle singles out a specific part of the body to which each saint is frequently associated in religious literature. The saints' bodies, Kugle argues, are treated as symbolic resources for generating religious meaning, communal solidarity, and the experience of sacred power. In each chapter, Kugle also features a particular theoretical problem, drawing methodologically from religious studies, anthropology, studies of gender and sexuality, theology, feminism, and philosophy. Bringing a new perspective to Islamic studies, Kugle shows how an important Islamic tradition integrated myriad understandings of the body in its nurturing role in the material, social, and spiritual realms.
Author : Shivan Mahendrarajah
Release : 2021-04-08
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Sufi Saint of Jam by : Shivan Mahendrarajah
Download or read book The Sufi Saint of Jam written by Shivan Mahendrarajah. This book was released on 2021-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunni saint cult and shrine of Ahmad-i Jam has endured for 900 years. The shrine and its Sufi shaykhs secured patronage from Mongols, Kartids, Tamerlane, and Timurids. The cult and shrine-complex started sliding into decline when Iran's shahs took the Shiʿi path in 1501, but are today enjoying a renaissance under the (Shiʿi) Islamic Republic of Iran. The shrine's eclectic architectural ensemble has been renovated with private and public funds, and expertise from Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization. Two seminaries (madrasa) that teach Sunni curricula to males and females were added. Sunni and Shiʿi pilgrims visit to venerate their saint. Jami mystics still practice ʿirfan ('gnosticism'). Analyzed are Ahmad-i Jam's biography and hagiography; marketing to sultans of Ahmad as the 'Guardian of Kings'; history and politics of the shrine's catchment area; acquisition of patronage by shrine and shaykhs; Sufi doctrines and practices of Jami mystics, including its Timurid-era Naqshbandi Sufis.
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Release : 2003
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 239/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia by :
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