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| Pt. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | The embodiment of charisma | 3 |
| Pt. 2 | Embodying locality | |
| 2 | The hardware of sanctity: anthropomorphic objects in Bangladeshi Sufism | 31 |
| 3 | A 'festival of flags': Hindu-Muslim devotion and the sacralising of localism at the shrine of Nagore-e-Sharif in Tamil Nadu | 55 |
| 4 | 'The saint who disappeared': saints of the wilderness in Pakistani village shrines | 77 |
| Pt. 3 | The performance of emotion | |
| 5 | Langar: pilgrimage, sacred exchange and perpetual sacrifice in a Sufi saint's lodge | 95 |
| 6 | Hierarchy and emotion: love, joy and sorrow in a cult of black saints in Gujarat, India | 117 |
| 7 | The majzub Mama Ji Sarkar: 'a friend of God moves from one house to another' | 140 |
| 8 | A majzub and his mother: the place of sainthood in a family's emotional memory | 160 |
| Pt. 4 | Charisma and modernity | |
| 9 | The literary critique of Islamic popular religion in the guise of traditional mysticism, or the abused woman | 187 |
| 10 | Prophets and pirs: charismatic Islam in the Middle East and South Asia | 209 |
| Name index | 234 | |
| Subject index | 238 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $190.08 | Digital |
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Alisa Barkdull
reviewed Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults on June 07, 2020 Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
A collection of tales, narratives, aphoristic-like expressions, and a space-fiction film script by Afghan traveller and authority on the Sufis, Idries Shah. The title piece, an animated film, derives from Sanai's and Rumi's stories of the blind men (or men in the dark) trying to understand an elephant by touching parts of it -- and among its messages is that, in approaching Sufism, it is not possible to get an idea of the whole of it from such disparate parts as may have come to an inquirer's attention. (Shah's endnotes show that conventional scholastic workers appear to have little clear idea about what Sufism is.) There are many lessons in this book. One famous story, "Pomegranates" (which Shah also retells elsewhere in his writings), shows in one of its senses how an unexpected element may be the decisive one in situations -- and how our assumptions can blind us to it. The book can help us to increase our perceptions and reduce some of our foolishness. And it's very entertaining as well.
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Add Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults, The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness , Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults, The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness , Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults to your collection on WonderClub |
