Varieties Of American Sufism
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Varieties Of American Sufism
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Author : Elliott Bazzano
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2020-08-01
Varieties Of American Sufism written by Elliott Bazzano and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-01 with Religion categories.
From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, Varieties of American Sufism immerses the reader in diverse expressions of contemporary Sufi religiosity in the United States. It spans more than a century of political, cultural, and embodied relationships with Islam and Muslims. American encounters with mystical Islam were initiated by a romantic quest for Oriental wisdom, flourished in the embrace of Eastern teachings during the countercultural era of New Age religion, were concretized due to late twentieth-century possibilities of travel and immigration to and from Muslim societies, and are now diffused through an explosion of cyber religion in an age of globalization. This collection of in-depth, participant-observation-based studies challenges expectations of uniformity and continuity while provoking stimulating reflection on a range of issues relevant to contemporary Islamic Studies, American religions, multireligious belonging, and new religious movements.
Sufism
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Author : Mark J. Sedgwick
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003
Sufism written by Mark J. Sedgwick and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Religion categories.
A scholar with long experience of Sufism in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe succinctly presents the essentials of Sufism and shows how Sufis live and worship, and why.
Living Sufism In North America
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Author : William Rory Dickson
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2015-09-11
Living Sufism In North America written by William Rory Dickson and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-11 with Religion categories.
Offers an overview of Sufism in North America. In this book, William Rory Dickson explores Sufism as a developing tradition in North America, one that exists in diverse and beguiling forms. Sufism’s broad-minded traditions of philosophy, poetry, and spiritual practice infused Islamic civilization for centuries and drew the attention of interested Westerners. By the early twentieth century, Sufism was being practiced in North America. Today’s North American Sufism can appear either explicitly Islamic or seemingly devoid of Islamic religiosity. Dickson provides indispensable background on Sufism’s relation to Islamic orthodoxy and to Western esoteric traditions, and its historical development in North America. The book goes on to chart the directions that North American Sufism is currently taking, directions largely chosen by Sufi leaders. The views of ten North American Sufi leaders are explored in depth and their perspectives on Islam, authority, gender, and tradition are put in conversation with one another. A more detailed picture of North American Sufism emerges, challenging previous scholarly classifications of Sufi groups, and highlighting Sufism’s fluidity, diversity, and dynamism. William Rory Dickson is Assistant Professor of Islamic Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg.
Contemporary Sufism
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Author : Meena Sharify-Funk
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-22
Contemporary Sufism written by Meena Sharify-Funk and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-22 with Religion categories.
What is Sufism? Contemporary views vary tremendously, even among Sufis themselves. Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture brings to light the religious frameworks that shape the views of Sufism’s friends, adversaries, admirers, and detractors and, in the process, helps readers better understand the diversity of contemporary Sufism, the pressures and cultural openings to which it responds, and the many divergent opinions about contemporary Sufism’s relationship to Islam. The three main themes: piety, politics, and popular culture are explored in relation to the Islamic and Western contexts that shape them, as well as to the historical conditions that frame contemporary debates. This book is split into three parts: • Sufism and anti-Sufism in contemporary contexts; • Contemporary Sufism in the West: Poetic influences and popular manifestations; • Gendering Sufism: Tradition and transformation. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the challenges of contemporary Sufism as well as its relationship to Islam, gender, and the West. It offers an ideal starting point from which undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and lecturers can explore Sufism today.
Sufism In America
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Author : Julianne Hazen
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-12-13
Sufism In America written by Julianne Hazen and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-13 with Religion categories.
This book sheds light on the living tradition of mystical Islam by focusing on the Alami Tariqa in Waterport, New York. It explores how this order has acculturated to the American setting, why individuals are drawn to the tariqa, and what it means to pursue spiritual goals in a modern, Western society.
Living From The Heart
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Author : Chuck Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-19
Living From The Heart written by Chuck Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with categories.
Living from the Heart: Universalist Sufism in America offers a glimpse into the mystical path of Sufism as expressed in the universalist Sufi teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) by contemporary Sufi teachers in America. A companion to the documentary of the same name, the book contextualizes Sufism as a spiritual path of the heart, addressing the distinction between Islamic and Universalist Sufism, and introduces readers to Sufi teachings on Love, Beauty, Music, God, and the Sufi practices of Zikr (remembrance) and Ziyaret (pilgrimage). Following Sufi teacher, Netanel Miles-Yépez, pirof the Inayati-Maimuni Order of Sufis, to Sufi pilgrimage sites across the country, the book also includes interview material with a variety of contemporary universalist Sufi teachers, including Murshida Taj Inayat, Pir Shabda Kahn, Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, Jennifer Alia Wittman, Deepa Gulrukh Patel, and Satya Inayat Khan.
Sufism In Europe And North America
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Author : David Westerlund
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-07-31
Sufism In Europe And North America written by David Westerlund and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-31 with Political Science categories.
Today there is a substantial and rapidly growing Muslim population in Europe and North America. Here, as elsewhere, many of the Muslims are Sufis. This book focuses mainly on issues of inculturation or contextualization of Sufism in the West. It shows that, while more traditional forms of Sufism exist, many radical changes have taken place in this part of the world. For instance, in some groups there are female sheikhs and a far-reaching pluralistic attitude to other religions. Hence Sufism is sometimes seen as something that transcends the boundaries of Islam.
Sufism In Western Contexts
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Author : Marcia K. Hermansen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-07-03
Sufism In Western Contexts written by Marcia K. Hermansen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-03 with Religion categories.
Sufism in Western Contexts explores both historical trajectories and multiple contemporary manifestations of Islamic mystical movements, ideas, and practices in diverse European, North and South American countries, as well as in Australia – all traditionally non-Muslim regions of the “global West”. From early French and British colonial administrators who admired Persian poetry to nineteenth-century American transcendentalists, followed by South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrant Sufi guides and their movements, expansive and many-faceted expressions of Sufism such as its role in Western esotericism, female whirling dervishes and Rumi cafes, and new articulations in cyberspace, are traced and analyzed by international experts in the field.
Sufi Talks
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Author : Robert Frager
language : en
Publisher: Quest Books
Release Date : 2012-12-19
Sufi Talks written by Robert Frager and has been published by Quest Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-19 with Religion categories.
Once a woman brought her son to the thirteenth-century Turkish Sufi master Nasruddin complaining that the boy had an uncontrollable sweet tooth. She asked Nasruddin to tell the boy to stop eating sweets. He said to bring him back in four weeks. When they returned he said, “Boy, I order you to stop eating sweets!” The mother asked, “Couldn’t you have said that at the beginning? Why make us wait four weeks?” “No, I couldn’t have said that even two weeks ago,” Nasruddin replied. “Why not?” asked the mother. “Because I love sweets myself. First I had to control my own love for them. Only then could I tell your son to stop eating them.” That is, words are empty unless backed by experience, says Robert Frager. People will not change until they hear from those who have lived what they teach. Frager has indeed lived his teaching. Founder of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in 1975, in 1976 he became a student of the Sufi master Muzaffer Efendi. Since becoming a sheikh in 1985, he has given many sohbets-a Turkish word for the spiritual conversations Sufi teachers hold to inspire their students. The sohbets he presents here are compiled from his talks over the past decade and represent Sufism as it is now practiced in the United States. Frager believes that the wisdom in such talks flows through the sheikh from his teacher and his teacher’s teacher all the way back to the Prophet Mohammad and God; the sheikh is merely a channel for something greater than any individual. Moreover, these talks are not lectures but rather living connections going both ways between heart and heart. Indeed, the warm, personal immediacy to Frager’s voice is rarely found. Like the tales of Nasruddin, he teaches through colorful anecdote and metaphors. Sufi practice has two sides, he says: one is to develop our love of God; the other is to become less self-centered. We need both, just as a bird needs both wings to fly. “How can I put my knowledge into practice?” is the question we must ask. As the Qur’an states, those who fail to live by their understanding are like donkeys carrying a load of books. The books won’t change them. They can carry the holiest books but will still be donkeys. Among the practices Frager teaches are zikr, or remembrance of God through chanting; halvet, or spiritual retreat; and adab, or “right action.” Thus do we develop character-or, rather, restore the character we had at birth. “I’ve never seen a baby with a bad character,” he says. “We are all born in a pure state. With hard work and God’s blessings we can return to it.” Other topics include Obstacles on the Path, Reducing Narcissism, Inner Work, Prayer, Marriage, Generosity, Taking Responsibility, and Waking before We Die. No matter what one’s religion, the reader will find such universal wisdom in this book that he will agree with Frager’s teacher Muzaffer Efendi who once advised, “You can tell these stories ten thousand times and people will still benefit from them"
Performing Post Tariqa Sufism
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Author : Esra Çizmeci
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Performing Post Tariqa Sufism written by Esra Çizmeci and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Performing Arts categories.
This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey. Through extensive field research in minority Sufi communities, this book investigates how devotees of specific orders maintain, adapt, mobilise, and empower their beliefs and values through embodied acts of their Sufi followers. Using an ethnographic methodology and theories derived from performance studies, Esra Çizmeci examines the multiple ways in which the post-tariqa Mevlevi and Rifai practice is formed in present-day Turkey, such as through the authority of the spiritual teacher; the individual and collective performance of Sufi rituals; nefs (self) training; and, most importantly, the practice of Sufi doctrines in everyday life through the production of sacred spaces. Drawing on the theories of performance, she examines how the Sufi way of living and spaces are created anew in the process of each devotee’s embodied action. This book is informed by theories in performance studies, anthropology, religious studies, and cultural studies and places current Sufi practices in a historical perspective.