God by all Means … Eclectic Faith and Sufi Resurgence Among the Moroccan Bourgeoisie

Les politiques du soufisme en France : le cas de la Qādiriyya Būdshīshiyya

“…En effet, le soufisme contemporain et européen, notamment dans le cas de la Būdshīshiyya (Dominguez-Diaz, 2014 ; Haenni and Voix, 2007 ; Jouili, 2013) et de l’ʿAlāwiyya (Haenni, 2009) a souvent été réduit à une forme de spiritualité « postmoderne », « new age », où la dimension individuelle et thérapeutique est au centre au détriment des questions politiques et publiques.…”

Recitações Musicais

“…O sufismo possui importância simbólica na sociedade marroquina e gera uma multiplicidade de percepções quanto às suas concepções e formas devocionais 8 . Diversos exemplos ao longo da história do país destacam a capacidade que algumas comunidades sufis tiveram para: estabelecer relações de poder a partir do sistema de dádiva/obrigação entre populações rurais (Rodriguez-Mañas, 2000); constituir acordos com o poder governante (sultão) no desenvolvimento de políticas locais (Munson Jr., 1993); criar ambientes de hospitalidade, ensino e propagação de ideias reformistas (Spillmann, 1951); organizar movimentos anti ou pró-nacionalistas (Vidal, 1950); instituir diálogos com os novos fluxos religiosos praticados por uma elite New Age (Haenni & Voix, 2007) e; promover atualmente uma imagem e discurso público de tolerância (Chih, 2012) frente ao terrorismo internacional.…”

The One or the Many? Transnational Sufism and Locality in the British Būdshīshiyya

“…41 During the late 1970s and 1980s, the ṭarīqa tried to change the membership's ethnic basis. 42 This new orientation towards a more diverse disciplehood has been understood by its members as an 'educational' (tarbawiyya) endeavour -aiming to make Sufism accessible to everyone -and it is portrayed as such in scholarly accounts (Ben Driss, 2002;Draper, 2002;Haenni and Voix, 2007;Sedgwick, 2004a;37 See for example, the website of the central zawiyya in the UK, http://www.sufiway.net/zawiya_birmingham.html 38 This is commonly referred as warch (Arabic transliteration in French) the specific method for Quranic reading characteristic of North-African Sufism. 39 http://www.ensemblerabia.net/ accessed the 17 th July 2012.…”

“…Primary published sources include Ben Driss ), Ben Rochd (2002 and Qustas' (2007). The unpublished PhD thesis of Draper's (2002) is one of the few works available, together with some articles (Sedgwick, 2004a;Haenni and Voix 2007;Voix, 2004). The data gathered for this article is mainly the result of fieldwork research carried out as part of my doctoral thesis for the School of Oriental andAfrican Studies between 2006 and During this time, I was in contact with current and former members of the Order -mostly women-from various European and Moroccan locations.…”