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Ambient Sufism

Author : Richard C. Jankowsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022672350X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Ambient Sufism by : Richard C. Jankowsky

Download or read book Ambient Sufism written by Richard C. Jankowsky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually undocumented role of women and minorities in shaping the ritual musical landscape of the region, with case studies on men’s and women’s Sufi orders, Jewish and black Tunisian healing musical troupes, and the popular music of hard-drinking laborers, as well as the cohorts involved in mass-mediated staged spectacles of ritual that continue to inject ritual sounds into the public sphere. He uses the term “ambient Sufism” to illuminate these adjacent ritual practices, each serving as a musical, social, and devotional-therapeutic niche while contributing to a larger, shared ecology of practices surrounding and invoking the figures of saints. And he argues that ritual musical form—that is, the large-scale structuring of ritual through musical organization—has agency; that is, form is revealing and constitutive of experience and encourages particular subjectivities. Ambient Sufism promises many useful ideas for ethnomusicology, anthropology, Islamic and religious studies, and North African studies.

AMBIENT SUFISM

Author : RICHARD C. JANKOWSKY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788194783039
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book AMBIENT SUFISM written by RICHARD C. JANKOWSKY and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dervishes of the North

Author : Merin Shobhana Xavier
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487545460
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dervishes of the North by : Merin Shobhana Xavier

Download or read book The Dervishes of the North written by Merin Shobhana Xavier and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–1273) is a popular spiritual icon. His legacy is sustained within the mystical and religious practice of Sufism, particularly through renditions of his poetry, music, and the meditation practice of whirling. In Canada, practices associated with Rumi have become ubiquitous in public spaces, such as museums, art galleries, and theatre halls, just as they continue to inform sacred ritual among Sufi communities. The Dervishes of the North explores what practices associated with Rumi in public and private spaces tell us about Sufism and spirituality, including sacred, cultural, and artistic expressions in the Canadian context. Using Rumi and contemporary expressions of poetry and whirling associated with him, the book captures the lived reality of Sufism through an ethnographic study of communities in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Drawing from conversations with Sufi leaders, whirling dervishes, and poets, Merin Shobhana Xavier explores how Sufism is constructed in Canada, particularly at the nexus of Islamic mysticism, Muslim diaspora, spiritual commodity, popular culture, and universal spirituality. Inviting readers with an interest in religion and spirituality, The Dervishes of the North illuminates how non-European Christian traditions, like Islam and Sufism, have informed the religious and spiritual terrain of Canada.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture

Author : Hussein Rashid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350145416
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture written by Hussein Rashid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture illustrates how Muslims participate in a broad spectrum of activities. Moving beyond a framework that emphasizes ritual, legal, historical, or theological issues, this book speaks to how Muslims live in the world, in relation to their religion and the realities of the world around them. The international team of contributors provide in-depth analysis that chronicles Islamic cultural products in regional and transnational contexts, explores dominant and emerging theories about popularization, and offers provocations in the field of religion and popular culture. The handbook is structured in six parts: spaces; appetites; performances; readings; visions; and communities. The book explores a variety of Muslim societies and communities within the last 100 years, ranging from the Islamic presence in Latin American architecture to Muslim Anglophone hip-hop, and Muslims in modern Indian theatre.

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry

Author : Huda J. Fakhreddine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100381543X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry by : Huda J. Fakhreddine

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry written by Huda J. Fakhreddine and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of contributions from leading international scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry incorporates political, cultural, and theoretical paradigms that help place poetic projects in their socio-political contexts as well as illuminate connections across the continuum of the Arabic tradition. This volume grounds itself in the present moment and, from it, examines the transformations of the fifteen-century Arabic poetic tradition through readings, re-readings, translations, reformulations, and co-optations. Furthermore, this collection aims to deconstruct the artificial modern/pre-modern divide and to present the Arabic poetic practice as live and urgent, shaped by the experiences and challenges of the twenty-first century and at the same time in constant conversation with its long tradition. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry actively seeks to destabilize binaries such as that of East-West in contributions that shed light on the interactions of the Arabic tradition with other Middle Eastern traditions, such as Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew, and on South-South ideological and poetic networks of solidarity that have informed poetic currents across the modern Middle East. This volume will be ideal for scholars and students of Arabic, Middle Eastern, and comparative literature, as well as non-specialists interested in poetry and in the present moment of the study of Arabic poetry.

Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism

Author : Fethullah Gülen
Publisher : Tughra Books
ISBN 13 : 9781932099232
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism written by Fethullah Gülen and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of Sufism -- Self criticism; Reflection; Privacy and seclusion; Heart; Hope or expectation; Asceticism. People follow the Sufi path when they sense that Islam has a deeper dimension. The resulting self-purification leads to this inner dimension of Islamic rituals, a deeper understanding of the Divine acts, and a greater knowledge and love of Him. After this, God draws the novice to Himself. With the help of a spiritual guide, the novice begins the life-long journey back to God. This continual process of spiritual development along a path of the innate human poverty, helplessness, and powerlessness before God is undertaken in the knowledge that everything comes from God. Each novice does what is necessary to grow spiritually, and God bestows the appropriate blessings and stations. "The highest aim of creation and its most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God. The most radiant happiness and sweetest bounty for jinn and humanity is love of God contained within the knowledge of God; the purest joy for the human spirit and the purest delight for the human heart is spiritual ecstasy contained within the love of God. Indeed, all true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God." And Sufism is the school where people can realise the highest aim of creation.

Recording History

Author : Christopher Silver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503631699
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Recording History written by Christopher Silver and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these communities together: Arab music. For decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio, performed in concert, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences, stir national sentiments, and frustrate French colonial authorities. With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illuminating regional and transnational connections. In asking what North Africa once sounded like, Silver recovers a world of many voices—of pioneering impresarios, daring female stars, cantors turned composers, witnesses and survivors of war, and national and nationalist icons—whose music still resonates well into our present.

History of Islamic Philosophy

Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000159027
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book History of Islamic Philosophy written by Oliver Leaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic philosophy has often been treated as being largely of historical interest, belonging to the history of ideas rather than to philosophical study. This volume successfully overturns that view. Emphasizing the living nature and rich diversity of the subject, it examines the main thinkers and schools of thought, discusses the key concepts of Islamic philosophy and covers a vast geographical area. This indispensable reference tool includes a comprehensive bibliography and an extensive index.

Key Concepts In Practice Of Sufism Vol 1

Author : M. Fethullah Gülen
Publisher : Tughra Books
ISBN 13 : 1597846449
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Book Synopsis Key Concepts In Practice Of Sufism Vol 1 by : M. Fethullah Gülen

Download or read book Key Concepts In Practice Of Sufism Vol 1 written by M. Fethullah Gülen and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study explores sufism as a form of self-purification, offering a deeper understanding of the sacred acts and a greater knowledge and love of the divine. The first volume of the series presents such sufi concepts as repentance, reflection, self-criticism, asceticism, piety, abstinence, self-supervision, and sincerity.

Essential Sufism

Author : Robert Frager
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062283464
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Essential Sufism written by Robert Frager and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive compendium of Sufi wisdom, 'Essential Sufism' draws together more than three hundred fables, poems and prayers that reveal the luminous spirit of Islamic mysticism. Embracing all eras and highlighting the many faces of Sufism, this colle

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy

Author : Daniel H. Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521655743
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (557 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy by : Daniel H. Frank

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy written by Daniel H. Frank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Creating Global Music in Turkey

Author : Koray Değirmenci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739175459
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Creating Global Music in Turkey by : Koray Değirmenci

Download or read book Creating Global Music in Turkey written by Koray Değirmenci and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Global Music in Turkey mainly analyzes how the local and global interact in the very place that is defined as the "local" by the global cultural system. It examines the different music traditions in Turkey as they are incorporated into the world music markets.

Music, Politics, and Violence

Author : Susan Fast
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573396
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Music, Politics, and Violence written by Susan Fast and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art. Considered together they raise fundamental questions about creativity, discourse, and music’s role in society. The essays in this collection investigate a wealth of issues surrounding music and violence—issues that cross political boundaries, time periods, and media—and provide cross-cultural case studies of musical practices ranging from large-scale events to regionally specific histories. Following the editors’ substantive introduction, which lays the groundwork for conceptualizing new ways of thinking about music as it relates to violence, three broad themes are followed: the first set of essays examines how music participates in both overt and covert forms of violence; the second section explores violence and reconciliation; and the third addresses healing, post-memorials, and memory. Music, Politics, and Violence affords space to look at music as an active agent rather than as a passive art, and to explore how music and violence are closely—and often uncomfortably—entwined. CONTRIBUTORS include Nicholas Attfield, Catherine Baker, Christina Baade, J. Martin Daughtry, James Deaville, David A. McDonald, Kevin C. Miller, Jonathan Ritter, Victor A. Vicente, and Amy Lynn Wlodarski.

What is Sufism?

Author : Martin Lings
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027947
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book What is Sufism? written by Martin Lings and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Key Concepts In Practice Of Sufism Vol 2

Author : M. Fethullah Gülen
Publisher : Tughra Books
ISBN 13 : 1597846457
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Book Synopsis Key Concepts In Practice Of Sufism Vol 2 by : M. Fethullah Gülen

Download or read book Key Concepts In Practice Of Sufism Vol 2 written by M. Fethullah Gülen and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his second compelling volume includes an introduction to the heart and its dynamics, as well as detailed examination of such concepts as freedom, altruism, wisdom, sainthood, intoxication and sobriety, wakefullness, and the universal man.

Sufism

Author : Carl W. Ernst
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834822970
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Sufism written by Carl W. Ernst and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished—from Morocco to India to China—and as varied as their distinctive forms of art, music, poetry, and dance. They are said to represent the mystical heart of Islam, yet the term Sufism is notoriously difficult to define, as it means different things to different people both within and outside the tradition. With that fact in mind, Carl Ernst explores the broadest range of Sufi philosophies and practices to provide one of the most complete and comprehensive introductions to Sufism available in English. He traces the history of the movement from the earliest days of Islam to the present day, along the way examining its relationship to the larger world of Islam and its encounters with both fundamentalism and secularism in the modern world.

Sufism

Author : Deepshikha Shahi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786613867
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Sufism written by Deepshikha Shahi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to attain a ‘global’ character, the contemporary academic discipline of International Relations (IR) increasingly seeks to surpass its Eurocentric limits, thereby opening up pathways to incorporate non-Eurocentric worldviews. Lately, many of the non-Eurocentric worldviews have emerged which either engender a ‘derivative’ discourse of the same Eurocentric IR theories, or construct an ‘exceptionalist’ discourse which is particularly applicable to the narrow experiential realities of a native time-space zone: as such, they fall short of the ambition to produce a genuinely ‘non-derivative’ and ‘non-exceptionalist’ Global IR theory. Against this backdrop, Sufism: A Theoretical Intervention in Global International Relations performs a multidisciplinary research to explore how ‘Sufism’ – as an established non-Western philosophy with a remarkable temporal-spatial spread across the globe – facilitates a creative intervention in the theoretical understanding of Global IR.