Tasting Islam: religious aesthetics and modernity in a contemporary Egyptian Sufi brotherhood

Abenante, Paola

doi:10.1080/14755610.2017.1326960

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“…4. Such healing transformations have been discussed across diverse Sufi contexts of healing, predominantly in Muslim-majority settings and rarely in Muslim-minority societies (Pandolfo 2018;Abenante 2013Abenante , 2017Abenante and Vicini 2017;Basu 2014;Clarke 2014;Frembgen 2012;Flueckiger 2006;Werbner and Basu 1998;Van der Veer 1992;Sidky 1990). 5.…”

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“…6. Paola Abenante (2017) 9. Murshid Hakim Sauluddin, who leads the Dervish Healing Order of the transnational Inayati Sufi-Ruhaniat network, considered the healing ritual to be something used as a tool in addition to the other "practices of breathing, visualization, healing meditation, and a close reading of the [Inayati] literature on healing" (conversation, May 2014).…”

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Tasting Islam: religious aesthetics and modernity in a contemporary Egyptian Sufi brotherhood

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