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Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the 'Self' - Gender in Islamic Ritual (Hardcover)
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Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the 'Self' - Gender in Islamic Ritual (Hardcover)
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This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and
embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi
community. Drawing on fieldwork in Cape Town, South Africa, and
Lefke, Cyprus (2013/2014), the author examines women's experiences
within a particular performance of Sufi tradition. The focus is on
the ritual named hadra, involving the recital of sacred texts,
music, and body movement, where the goal is for the individual to
reach a state of intimacy with God. The volume considers Sufi
practice as a form of embodied cultural behavior, religious
identity, and selfhood construction. It explains how Muslim women's
participation in hadra ritual life reflects religious and cultural
ideas about the body, the body's movement, and embodied selfhood
expression within the ritual experience. Sufi Women, Ritual
Embodiment and the 'Self' engages with studies in Sufism, symbolic
anthropology, ethnography, dance, and somatic studies. Contributing
to discussions of religion, gender, and the body, the book will be
of interest to scholars from anthropology, sociology, religious
ritual studies, Sufism and gender studies, and performance studies.
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