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Release | : 2023-07-18 |
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ISBN | : 9788869774270 |
Download Dervishes Along the Silk Roads: Between Past and Present Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book highlights aspects of the spiritual culture within Islam that flourished along the 'Silk Roads' - the term coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 to describe the web of caravan routes that connected China, South and Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The movement of goods and of people was accompanied by the circulation of ideas, bringing about a vivid exchange in the cultural sphere - sufism, or tasawwuf, was one such idea. Focusing on this them, these conference proceedings draw attention to the multiple dimensions embraced by tasawwuf, both in its temporal (i.e. historical, ethnographical and social) context, as well as its atemporal one (i.e. concerning spirituality and the ways this is conveyed and transmitted, both in the past and in the present).
Author | : AA: VV: |
Publisher | : Mimesis |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2024-03-08T00:00:00+01:00 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 8869774716 |
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The present book intends to invite readers on a multi-dimensional and multifaceted journey meeting dervishes in different places and environments of the Muslim world; its peculiarity is to bring together a classical orientalist approach, based on texts and written documents, with the approach typical of Anthropology, Ethnography and Ethnomusicology, based on research in the field and oral sources: the ethnographic study of the present sheds new light on practices, methods and theories exposed in treatises of the Past while, at the same time, practices of the present may be clarified and illuminated by the study of ancient Sufi texts and authors. These different approaches want to draw attention to the multiple dimensions embraced by “tasawwuf” (Sufism) both in its historical and social context and in its nontemporal aspect, concerning spirituality and the ways the latter is conveyed and transmitted, both in the past and present.
Author | : Omar Michael Burke |
Publisher | : Octagon Press, Limited |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Religion |
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O.M. Burke's first-hand account of his modern-day pilgrimage begins in a school built like a medieval rock fortress hidden in northern India. From there he takes the reader to monasteries where ancient lore is still taught, along the pilgrim road to forbidden Mecca, and into the heart and mind of Asia. Burke's experiences with living Sufis and their teachings, practices, and actions clearly dispel the notion of Sufism as a phenomenon of the past.
Author | : Jurgen Wasim Frembgen |
Publisher | : OUP Pakistan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780195476422 |
Download Journey to God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Sufi tradition as the 'other face' and 'soft core' of Islam is characterized by tolerance, humanism and the accommodation of differences. This book is an introduction to the concrete, practiced and lived forms of Islamic mysticism surveying the whole of the Muslim world with particular emphasis on South Asia as its demographic centre.
Author | : Idries Shah |
Publisher | : Octagon Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Sufi parables |
ISBN | : 0900860472 |
Download Tales of the Dervishes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A mysterious chest is buried unopened. A wondrous caravan brings fortune to a simple cobbler. An outcast princess creates a new life in the wilderness. Some of the 78 tales in this remarkable book first appeared in print over a thousand years ago; others are medieval classics. Yet each has a special relevance for us at the dawn of the 21st century. All are told with Idries Shah's distinctive wit and grace and the author's own commentary notes. These are teaching stories in the Sufi tradition. Those who probe beyond the surface will find multiple meanings to challenge assumptions and foster new ways of thinking and perceiving. Tales of the Dervishes is essential reading for anyone interested in Sufi thought, the significance and history of tales, or simply superb entertainment.
Author | : Robert Irwin |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2011-04-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1847654045 |
Download Memoirs of a Dervish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in North Africa and he studied Arabic in London. He also pursued more esoteric topics under a holy fool possessed of telepathic powers. A series of meditations on the nature of mystical experience run through this memoir. But political violence, torture, rock music, drugs, nightmares, Oxbridge intellectuals and first love and its loss are all part of this strange story from the 1960s.
Author | : Joy E. Stocke |
Publisher | : Greenleaf Book Group |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0983918813 |
Download Anatolian Days and Nights Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Shems Friedlander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Mevleviyeh |
ISBN | : 9781901383089 |
Download Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This account of the Sufi order of Mevlevi dervishes and its founder, the poet and mystic Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, presents the esoteric wisdom of the Sufis as it has been handed down from the great teachers of the past without alienating the modern reader. In addition to Rumi's life story, accounts of dervishes past and present are included. Featured are excerpts from Rumi's poetry, teachings of other Sufi masters, descriptions of the dervish lodges and the symbolism of the dervish ceremony, and an overview of the music that accompanies the Mevlevis' dances. Haunting, evocative pictures of the order's dancers clad in traditional dress provide a glimpse of ceremonies usually closed to the public.
Author | : Ahmet T. Karamustafa |
Publisher | : ONEWorld |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2006-06 |
Genre | : History |
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Download God's Unruly Friends Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wandering dervishes formed a prominent feature of most Muslim communities and although social misfits, were revered by the public yet denounced by cultural elites. This survey of this type of piety, traces the history of the different dervish groups that roamed the lands in Asia as well as the Middle East and Southeast Europe.
Author | : Ḥammūr Ziyādah |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Arabic fiction |
ISBN | : 9774167880 |
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At the close of the nineteenth century, freed slave Bakhit is let out of prison with the overthrow of the Mahdist state in Sudan. On the brink of death, the memory of his beloved Theodora is all that has sustained him through seven years of grim incarceration-that and his vow to avenge her killing. Set against a backdrop of war, religious fervor, and the monumental social and political upheavals of the time, The Longing of the Dervish is a love story in the most unlikely of circumstances. Lyrical and evocative, Hammour Ziada's masterfully crafted novel is about sorrow, hope, and the cruelty of fate.