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Sufi Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Shahzad Bashir
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-01 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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"Bashir weaves a rich history of Sufi Islam around the depiction of bodily actions in Sufi literature and miniature paintings produced circa 1300-1500 CE. Focus
Sufis and Saints' Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Scott Kugle
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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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 Islami
Muhammad's Body
Language: en
Pages: 215
Authors: Michael Muhammad Knight
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-06 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Muhammad's Body introduces questions of embodiment and materiality to the study of the Prophet Muhammad. Analyzing classical Muslim literary representations of
Sufism
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Nile Green
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-20 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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Since their beginnings in the ninth century, the shrines, brotherhoods and doctrines of the Sufis held vast influence in almost every corner of the Muslim world
Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Silvia Bruzzi
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-11 - Publisher: BRILL

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In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in