Jamila Rodrigues

Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the 'Self'

Gender in Islamic Ritual

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781032430737
• ISBN-10: 1032430737
• Artikelnr.: 71238067

Autorenporträt

Jamila Rodrigues is a dance anthropologist currently working in Japan. She was awarded a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellowship to conduct research on Japanese women and well-being during times of crisis hosted by the International Research Centre in Kyoto (Nichibunken).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 The Salikun journey begins
2 From theory to practice
3 The inner Islam: an overview of Sufism and Sufi notions of the body
4 Dancing with God: hadra as sacred dance and cultural embodiment
5 'De-code' hadra: body movement analysis of the ritual practice
6 Symbolic embodied practice: the Sufi 'mystical body' and women's
religious identity
7 Let the bird fly' ... somatic practice and hadra performance, the
embodied experience
8 The salikun journey ends