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Record Nr.

UNINA9910133524203321

Autore

Andezian Sossie

Titolo

Expériences du divin dans l'Algérie contemporaine : adeptes des saints de la région de Tlemcen / / Sossie Andezian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

CNRS Éditions, 2001

Paris : , : CNRS Éditions, , 2001

ISBN

2-271-07851-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages) : colour illustrations

Collana

Connaissance du Monde Arabe

Disciplina

297/.0965/1

Soggetti

Islam - Algeria - Tlemcen

Muslim women - Religious life - Algeria - Tlemcen

Experience (Religion)

Mysticisme - Algérie - Tlemcen, Région de - Islam

Saints musulmans - Culte - Algérie - Tlemcen, Région de

Soufisme - Algérie - Tlemcen, Région de

Islam - France

Femmes - Algérie - Tlemcen, Région de - Vie religieuse

Vie religieuse - Islam

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Islam

Tlemcen (Algeria) Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-216).

Sommario/riassunto

Far from the media stereotypes maintaining the image of a legalistic and belligerent Islam, Islamic mysticism, true religion of love and desire practiced by the faithful in search of the divine, is characterized by a great diversity of cults. It is to a journey to the heart of the feminine expressions of this religious form in Algeria in the eighties that Sossie Andezian invites us with this work. In an original style combining emotional sensitivity and scientific rigor, slices of religious life captured



live are delivered to us.Tearing the veil of a standardized Islam, the author reveals the variety of experiences of the divine in Islam, from meditation in silence to ecstatic dances, including all forms of prayers celebrating God and the intercessors of men with God (jinn, saints, prophets). The rituals are analyzed in the light of the changes that have occurred in Algerian society since Independence, in particular in the field of the relationships between rural and urban space, between women and men, between local religions and State religion. Living testimonies as well as descriptions of great finesse make the book attractive and accessible to the non-specialist.