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200 10$aSufis & saints' bodies $emysticism, corporeality, & sacred power in Islam /$fScott Kugle
205 $a1st ed.
210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2007
215 $a1 online resource (310 p.)
225 1 $aIslamic civilization & Muslim networks
300 $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327 $aIntroduction -- Body enshrined: the bones of Mawlay Idri?s -- Body politicized: the belly of sayyida A?mina -- Body refined: the eyes of Muh?ammad Ghawth -- Body enraptured: the lips of Sha?h H?ussayn -- Body revived: the heart of H?a?jji Imda?dullah -- Conclusion: corporeality and sacred power in Islam.
330 $aIslam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.
Sufis and Saints' Bodies focuses on six important saints from Sufi communities in North Africa and South Asia. Kugle singles out a specific part of the
410 0$aIslamic civilization & Muslim networks.
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606 $aHuman body (Philosophy)
606 $aSufism$xDoctrines
606 $aMysticism$xIslam
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615 0$aHuman body (Philosophy)
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