03003nam 2200685Ia 450 991046573860332120200520144314.01-4696-0268-70-8078-7277-6(CKB)2560000000079302(EBL)834234(OCoLC)772844965(SSID)ssj0000593586(PQKBManifestationID)11399023(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000593586(PQKBWorkID)10740242(PQKB)10001618(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245927(MiAaPQ)EBC834234(OCoLC)778434405(MdBmJHUP)muse28032(Au-PeEL)EBL834234(CaPaEBR)ebr10524364(CaONFJC)MIL930158(EXLCZ)99256000000007930220060731d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSufis & saints' bodies[electronic resource] mysticism, corporeality, & sacred power in Islam /Scott KugleChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (310 p.)Islamic civilization & Muslim networksDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-5789-0 0-8078-3081-X 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.Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle 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, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.<BR><BR><i>Sufis and Saints' Bodies</i> focuses on six important saints from Sufi communities in North Africa and South Asia. Kugle singles out a specific part of theIslamic civilization & Muslim networks.Human bodyReligious aspectsIslamHuman body (Philosophy)SufismDoctrinesMysticismIslamElectronic books.Human bodyReligious aspectsIslam.Human body (Philosophy)SufismDoctrines.MysticismIslam.297.4/12Kugle Scott Alan1969-1032671MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465738603321Sufis & saints' bodies2455223UNINA