Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam : Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith /: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sarwar Alam.
• Editors: Alam, Sarwar
• Contents: Acknowledgements Short biographies of the contributors Introduction: Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith Sarwar Alam Part I: Cultural fusion 1 Tasting the Sweet: Guru Nanak and Sufi Delicacies Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh 2 The ‘Sufism’ of Monsieur Ibrahim Milad Milani 3 Promoting Social and Religious Harmony: Bāul’s Origin, Migration West and Roji Sarker’s Performance in the British Bangladeshi Diaspora Clinton Bennett; Part II: Poetry and literature 4 Making Passion Popular: Sung Poetry in Urdu and Its Social Effects in South Asia Scott Kugle 5 Shaping the Way We Believe: Sufism in Modern Turkish Culture and Literature Huseyin Altindis 6 Orthodoxy, Sectarianism, and Ideals of Sufism in an Early Ottoman Context: Eşrefoğlu Rumi and His Book of the Sufi Path Barış Baştürk Part III: Devotional expressions in hagiography and music 7 Calligraphy as a Sufi Practice Manuela Ceballos 8 The Abstraction of Love: Personal Emotion and Mystical Spirituality in the Life Narrative of a Sufi Devotee Pnina Werbner 9 "O Beloved My Limbs Long for Thee": Devotionalism and Gender Transgression in the Songs of Miazbhandariyya Tariqa in Bangladesh Sarwar Alam Part IV: Political discourse 10 Injecting God into Politics: Modelling Asma’ ul Husna as a Sufi-based Panacea to Political Conflict in Contemporary Malaysia Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid and Noorulhafidzah Zawawi 11 Sufism and Communism: The Poetry of Fuʾād Ḥaddād Abdullah Ramadan Khalaf Moursi and Mohamed A. Mohamed
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages), (1 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429872945; 0429872941
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