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Author: Shahzad Bashir
ISBN: 9780231144919

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Título Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam
Autor Shahzad Bashir
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Páginas 296
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Columbia University Press
Fecha de publicación 2013-09-24
Ilustrado Sí
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780231144919 / 0231144911
Peso 0.75 libras (0.34 kg)
Dimensiones 9 x 6 x 0.7 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
Temas
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2011000817
Dewey Decimal Code 297.409

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Shahzad Bashir is the Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nurbakhshiya Between Medieval and Modern Islam and Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis.

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Paperback / softback. New. Between 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… Leer más