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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Sufism"”.
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A Comparative Study of Jungian Psychology and Sufism
… and the purification of the nafs (the self) in Sufism. The premises for my argument are the lack of literature between Jungian psychology and Sufism despite the obvious potential of comparative materials, while Jung’s relation to other religious traditions is relatively well documented. The …
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The Sonic Ummah: Sound and Presence in Singapore Sufism
… and interviews, I offer an overview of Sufism in Singapore and examine the ideas of followers from the Ba’Alwie, Naqshbandhi-Haqqani, Chishti-Qadri, Qadri-Naqshbandhi, and Shadhili Sufi orders. Beyond the question of sound and ritual, I also explore here how members of these communities …
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Theurgy and the Snake: The Yoga Kalandar and Bengali Sufism
A radically alternative vision of the fakir is given in surviving medieval (Bng. madhya-ẏug, “Middle Age”) and pre-modern textual sources that predate and coincide with the colonial period in Bengal, such as the widely influential 17th century Yoga Kalandar text as well as Bāul oral traditions …
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The symbolic significance of the ghaita as used in Moroccan Sufism
...a serendipitous discovery of the Aissawa Order of Morocco ... lead me to become interested in the music of Morocco and particularly the use of oboes by the people of that country. I had already heard recordings of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, another Moroccan group who uses oboes, but saw …
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The Spiritual Turn: Modern Sufism and the Study of Islamic Art and Architecture
This dissertation constructs a genealogy of modern Sufi discourse on art and architecture. It draws the history of a chain of writers and artists, connected through a spiritual and intellectual line of transmission, who developed a particular reading of their world- its values, its cultures and …
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The barzakh and the bardo: challenges to religious violence in Sufism and Vajrayana Buddhism
In the twenty-first century, religious violence has become endemic in our world. Scholars are divided on the true motivations for such violence, however. While some perceive inherent incitements to violence embedded in religion itself, others blame other factors—primarily, competition for …
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Cyber-Islamic Environments and Salafī-Ṣūfī Contestations Appropriating Digital Media and Challenges to Religious Authority
… focus on the schisms between Salafism and Sufism. The main attention is on the content and strategies of Salafī contestations with Sufism and, to a lesser extent, with certain creedal schools of thought. The study addresses a gap in Cyber-Islamic Environments studies and raises thesis …
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The shaping Shaikh: an ethnographic inquiry into the role of the Shaikh in the adaptation of Naqshbandi Sufism in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
… institutionally established authority in Sufism, this empirical contrast suggested that universal norms, theoretical constructs and traditional principles within a common Bosnian Naqshbandi framework were ultimately subservient to the Shaikh. This thesis argues that while operating within …
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Nothing but the truth: the Sufi testament of 'Aziz Nasafi
… to the speculative and practical dimensions of Sufism. This thesis is an attempt to present Nasafi's main teachings. After introducing his life, times and works, the second chapter focuses upon ontology. This is the spine of Nasafi's treatises and it is based upon the Sufi interpretation of …
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'God Does Not Regard Your Forms': Gender and Literary Representation in the Works of Farīd al-Dīn 'Aṭṭār Nīshāpūrī
Studies on gender in medieval and modern Sufism have tended to posit two extremes: Sufism as an oasis for women, away from the strictures of ‘orthodoxy,’ or Sufism as a haven for misogynistic views of women as temptations, distractions, and necessary evils. However, these simplistic …
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SUFIMINISM: THE SEXUAL, THE SPIRITUAL, THE SELF
… between Islam and sex. Existing scholarship on Sufism, Islam, and feminism tends to overrely on legal framings of sexuality and heavily exegetical engagements with religion, and offers too many unstated concessions to respectability politics. I argue that by centering the poetic, the everyday, …
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Ibn Arabi's Sufi and poetic experiences (through his collection of mystical poems Tarjuman al-Ashwaq)
… methodologies reveal the actual status of the Sufism of Ibn Arabi who came with a challenging sufi doctrine. Also, in the theoretical methodology I attempt to define Sufism by giving a panoramic history of it. I have also researched Ibn Arabi's status amongst his contemporaries for example, …
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An analysis of Ibn al-'Arabi's al-Insan al-Kamil, the Perfect Individual, with a brief comparison to the thought of Sir Muhammad Iqbal
… The Introduction provides a definition of Sufism, and it situates Ibn al-'Arabi's thought within the broader context of the philosophy of perfection. Chapter One discusses the transformative knowledge of the Perfect Individual. It analyzes the relationship between reason, revelation, and …
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Unity in Diversity: The Scholarly Community of the Ḥaramayn in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
… the spirit of taḥqīq (verification) in Ḥadīth, Sufism and theology; this was a hallmark of scholarship. Nevertheless, verification resulted in varied implications for ʿulamāʾ across various disciplines. Moreover, the thesis presents how several ideas developed in taḥqīq scholarship during the …
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Mbalax: Cosmopolitanism in Senegalese Urban Popular Music
… how the practices of Wolofness, blackness, and Sufism layered and intersected to articulate a modern Senegalese identity, or Senegaleseness. This ethnographic work was complimented by research in recording studios, television studios, radio stations, and research institutions throughout Senegal. …
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A Critical Assessment of Modern Qazaqs’ Historical Claim That Islam Is the Ancestral Faith
… Hanafi Maturidism prevailed alongside Sufism. However, a careful examination of historical data and archaeological findings does not coincide with the broadcasted narrative on the significance of Maturidism among Qazaqs before 1991. This research suggests that the role of Maturidism …
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Kiai Sadrach Suropranoto (1835-1924) and the Javanese mystical Christian movement.
… mystical tradition and later traversed Islamic Sufism before culminating in his conversion to Christianity. Working under the patronage of Mrs. Christina Stevens-Philips, a Dutch laywoman evangelist, Sadrach became one of the most successful native evangelists in Java. His distinctive …
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Transcending the metanarrative: the postmodern spirituality of Shirazeh Houshiary's sculpture
… of her own creation, taking inspiration from Sufism, which welcomes the beliefs of many religious traditions. This combination of spiritual disciplines is influenced by the dawn of the postmodern era, and what philosopher Jean- François Lyotard theorized as the collapse of the …
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