Stamping the Earth with the Name of Allah: Zikr and the Sacralizing of Space among British Muslims

Stamping the Earth with the Name of Allah: Zikr and the Sacralizing of Space among British Muslims

Given the complex symbolic connotations that space and place are endowed with, it is to be expected that the conquest of space--its inscription with a new moral and cultural surface--will be regarded as an act of human empowerment. Werbner discusses such a contemporary and historical process of reli...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cultural anthropology 1996-08, Vol.11 (3), p.309-338
1. Verfasser: Werbner, Pnina
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Anthropology
Caves
Connotation
Cultural anthropology
Culture
Empowerment
Great Britain
Identity
Immigration
Islam
Mosques
Muslims
Pakistan
Pakistani communities
Prayer
Processions
Religious Movements
Religious rituals
Space
Spatial aspects
Spatial dimension
Sufism
Transnationalism
United Kingdom
Wilderness
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Zusammenfassung:Given the complex symbolic connotations that space and place are endowed with, it is to be expected that the conquest of space--its inscription with a new moral and cultural surface--will be regarded as an act of human empowerment. Werbner discusses such a contemporary and historical process of religious spatial "conquest" effects by a transnational Sufi regional cult centered in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan and extending into Britain.
ISSN:0886-7356
1548-1360
DOI:10.1525/can.1996.11.3.02a00020