Sufis & saints' bodies [[electronic resource] ] : mysticism, corporeality, & sacred power in Islam / / Scott Kugle

• Autore: Kugle Scott Alan <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.4/12
• Soggetto topico: Human body - Religious aspects - Islam; Human body (Philosophy); Sufism - Doctrines; Mysticism - Islam
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 the
• Titolo autorizzato: Sufis & saints' bodies
• ISBN: 1-4696-0268-7; 0-8078-7277-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791988103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.