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Living Sufism : rituals in the Middle East and the Balkans / Nicolaas Biegman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, ©2009.Description: 188 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 x 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9774162633
  • 9789774162633
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 297
LOC classification:
  • BP188.8.M628 B54 2009
Contents:
Introduction: A Different Islam -- 1. Sufism and the Zikr -- 2. Sufi Orders -- 3. A Sufi on Sufism: interview with Sheikh Zahir -- 4. Dancing with God (Egypt) -- 5. Sitting with God (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo) -- 6. Standing with God Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- 7. An Iron Faith (Syria) -- 8. The Prophets Birthday (Cairo).
Summary: "Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam, is as far from the strident and often violent fundamentalist strain of the religion that has so captured world attention as it is possible to be. Sufis in all parts of the Islamic world are broad-minded, tolerant, and non-violent, their quest only to find and approach God through all means, including poetry, music, and dance. Historian Nicolaas Biegman has been observing and photographing Sufi practice and ritual in different Muslim lands for many years, and here in this collection of extraordinary photographs he feels the pulse of the Sufi experience, with its enormous variety in discipline and exuberance, intellectualism and spontaneity, in Egypt, Syria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia. In accompanying texts he explores what lies behind the rituals, and explains aspects of Sufi life and practice such as the position of women."--Google Books
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Introduction: A Different Islam -- 1. Sufism and the Zikr -- 2. Sufi Orders -- 3. A Sufi on Sufism: interview with Sheikh Zahir -- 4. Dancing with God (Egypt) -- 5. Sitting with God (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo) -- 6. Standing with God Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- 7. An Iron Faith (Syria) -- 8. The Prophets Birthday (Cairo).

"Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam, is as far from the strident and often violent fundamentalist strain of the religion that has so captured world attention as it is possible to be. Sufis in all parts of the Islamic world are broad-minded, tolerant, and non-violent, their quest only to find and approach God through all means, including poetry, music, and dance. Historian Nicolaas Biegman has been observing and photographing Sufi practice and ritual in different Muslim lands for many years, and here in this collection of extraordinary photographs he feels the pulse of the Sufi experience, with its enormous variety in discipline and exuberance, intellectualism and spontaneity, in Egypt, Syria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia. In accompanying texts he explores what lies behind the rituals, and explains aspects of Sufi life and practice such as the position of women."--Google Books

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