LEADER 03953nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9911095100603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613260963 010 $a9781283260961 010 $a1283260964 010 $a9780231517607 010 $a0231517602 024 7 $a10.7312/bash14490 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050812 035 $a(EBL)1918806 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541673 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12269914 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541673 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10498846 035 $a(PQKB)10493688 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000454838 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1918806 035 $a(DE-B1597)458639 035 $a(OCoLC)979753820 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231517607 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1918806 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491549 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL326096 035 $a(OCoLC)754710147 035 $a(Perlego)774672 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050812 100 $a20110107d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSufi bodies $ereligion and society in medieval Islam /$fShahzad Bashir 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2011 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2011] 215 $a1 online resource (413 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780231144919 311 0 $a0231144911 311 0 $a9780231144902 311 0 $a0231144903 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tNOTES ON TRANSLITERATION --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tCHRONOLOGY --$tINTRODUCTION: SHAKINGHANDS --$tI. FRAMING SUFI IDEAS & PRACTICES --$tII. SUFI BODIES IN MOTION --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBetween 1300 and 1500 C.E. a new form of Sufi Islam took hold among central Islamic peoples, joining individuals through widespread networks resembling today's prominent paths and orders. Understanding contemporary Sufism requires a sophisticated analysis of these formative years. Moving beyond a straight account of leaders and movements, Shahzad Bashir weaves a rich history around the depiction of bodily actions by Sufi masters and disciples, primarily in Sufi literature and Persian miniature paintings of the period. Focusing on the Persianate societies of Iran and Central Asia, Bashir explores medieval Sufis' conception of the human body as the primary shuttle between interior (batin) and exterior (zahir) realities. Drawing on literary, historical, and anthropological approaches to corporeality, he studies representations of Sufi bodies in three personal and communal arenas: religious activity in the form of ritual, asceticism, rules of etiquette, and a universal hierarchy of saints; the deep imprint of Persian poetic paradigms on the articulation of love, desire, and gender; and the reputation of Sufi masters for working miracles, which empowered them in all domains of social activity. Bashir's novel perspective illuminates complex relationships between body and soul, body and gender, body and society, and body and cosmos. It highlights love as an overarching, powerful emotion in the making of Sufi communities and situates the body as a critical concern in Sufi thought and practice. Bashir's work ultimately offers a new methodology for extracting historical information from religious narratives, especially those depicting extraordinary and miraculous events. 606 $aSufism 606 $aSufism$xDoctrines 615 0$aSufism. 615 0$aSufism$xDoctrines. 676 $a297.409/02 686 $aBE 8640$2rvk 700 $aBashir$b Shahzad$f1968-$01034962 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911095100603321 996 $aSufi bodies$94678756 997 $aUNINA