1st Edition
Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey
By Esra Çizmeci
Copyright 2023
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey.
Through extensive field research in minority Sufi communities, this book investigates how devotees of specific orders... Read more
Introduction: Post-Tariqa Sufi Space in Turkey
Part I: Restoring
Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives: Post-tariqa Mevlevi Devotion
Chapter 2. Designing a Post-tariqa Communal Sufi Training
Part II: Transmitting
Chapter 3. Whirling "Anytime and AnyPlace"
Part III: Transforming
Chapter 4. Sacralisation of the Body and Mind
Chapter 5. World as Manyness of Reality
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Esra Çizmeci is a performance studies scholar and an ethnographer. Her research interests include performance in the everyday, performance for actors and non-actors, Islam and performance, performance theory and ethnographic methods, the study of minority cultures as well as community performance.
