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Sufis & saints' bodies : mysticism, corporeality, & sacred power in Islam / Scott Kugle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic civilization & Muslim networksPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780807872772
  • 0807872776
  • 9781469602684
  • 1469602687
  • 9798893132519
Other title:
  • Sufis and saints' bodies
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sufis & saints' bodies.DDC classification:
  • 297.4/12 22
LOC classification:
  • BP190.5.B63 K84 2007eb
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  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.83
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Contents:
Introduction -- Body enshrined: the bones of Mawlay Idrīs -- Body politicized: the belly of sayyida Āmina -- Body refined: the eyes of Muḥammad Ghawth -- Body enraptured: the lips of Shāh Ḥussayn -- Body revived: the heart of Ḥājji Imdādullah -- Conclusion: corporeality and sacred power in Islam.
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Summary: Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. The author of this book refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, he demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power. The book focuses on six important saints from Sufi communities in North Africa and South Asia.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)426596

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Body enshrined: the bones of Mawlay Idrīs -- Body politicized: the belly of sayyida Āmina -- Body refined: the eyes of Muḥammad Ghawth -- Body enraptured: the lips of Shāh Ḥussayn -- Body revived: the heart of Ḥājji Imdādullah -- Conclusion: corporeality and sacred power in Islam.

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Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. The author of this book refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, he demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power. The book focuses on six important saints from Sufi communities in North Africa and South Asia.

English.