The cultural fusion of Sufi Islam alternative paths to mystical faith

Inhaltsangabe: “… Tasting the sweet: Guru Nanak and Sufi delicacies / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh -- The 'Sufism' of Monsieur Ibrahim / Milad Milani -- Promoting social and religious harmony: Bāul's origin, migration west and Roji Sarker's performance in the British Bangladeshi diaspora / Clinton Bennett -- Making passion popular: sung poetry in Urdu and its social effects in South Asia / Scott Kugle -- Shaping the way we believe: Sufism in modern Turkish culture and literature / Huseyin Altindis -- Orthodoxy, sectarianism, and ideals of Sufism in an early Ottoman context: Eṣrefoğlu Rumi and his book of the Sufi path / Bariṣ Baṣtürk -- Calligraphy as a Sufi practice / Manuela Ceballos -- The abstraction of love: personal emotion and mystical spirituality in the life narrative of a Sufi devotee / Pnina Werbner -- "O beloved my limbs long for thee": devotionalism and gender transgression in the songs of Miazbhandariyya Tariqa in Bangladesh / Sarwar Alam -- 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 -- Sufism and communism: the poetry of Fu'ād Ḥaddād / Abdullah Ramadan Khalaf Moursi and Mohamed A.  …”

Cultural fusion of Sufi Islam alternative paths to mystical faith

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Symbolism, its origins and its consequences

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