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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious experience > Mysticism
For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil
ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu
and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the
global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of
Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once
fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and
worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality,
Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious
practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental,
and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of
Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious
movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the
mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility
therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple
religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners
as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a
world on the edge.
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The Book of Jasher
(Hardcover)
J. Asher; Introduction by Fabio De Araujo; Translated by Moses Samuel
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"A Collection of Sufi Rules of Conduct" (Jawami Adab al-Sufiyya)
was written by one of the foremost early masters of Sufism and is
considered as the first work devoted to the description of the way
of life and the customs of the Sufis. It represents an early
attempt to illustrate the conformity of Sufi beliefs and manners
with the Qur'an and the example of the Prophet (Sunna). "A
Collection of Sufi Rules of Conduct" is therefore not only a
pioneering work of ethics and mysticism, it is also a summary of
the views of Sufis up till the eleventh century. It was a major
influence on the development of Sufism from the eleventh century
onwards. The translation by Dr Elena Biagi includes an introduction
that places the author in his historical, literary and religious
context, and a general glossary of Sufi technical terms.
Sufism is typically thought of as the mystical side of Islam. In
recent years, it has been held up as a supposedly peaceful
alternative to the spread of forms of Islam associated with
violence, an embodiment of democratic ideals of tolerance and
pluralism. Are Sufis in fact as otherworldy and apolitical as this
stereotype suggests? Modern Sufis and the State brings together a
range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and
religious-studies specialists, to challenge common assumptions that
are made about Sufism today. Focusing on India and Pakistan within
a broader global context, this book provides locally grounded
accounts of how Sufis in South Asia have engaged in politics from
the colonial period to the present. Contributors foreground the
effects and unintended consequences of efforts to link Sufism with
the spread of democracy and consider what roles scholars and
governments have played in the making of twenty-first-century
Sufism. They critique the belief that Salafism and Sufism are
antithetical, offering nuanced analyses of the diversity,
multivalence, and local embeddedness of Sufi political engagements
and self-representations in Pakistan and India. Essays question the
portrayal of Sufi shrines as sites of toleration, peace, and
harmony, exploring cases of tension and conflict. A wide-ranging
interdisciplinary collection, Modern Sufis and the State is a
timely call to think critically about the role of public discourse
in shaping perceptions of Sufism.
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