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Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World

Autor Benjamin Gatling
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 aug 2018
This eloquent ethnography reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid detail the range of expressive forms—memories, stories, poetry, artifacts, rituals, and other embodied practices—employed as they try to construct a Sufi life in twenty-first-century Central Asia.

Gatling demonstrates how Sufis transcend the oppressive religious politics of contemporary Tajikistan by using these forms to inhabit multiple times: the paradoxical present, the Persian sacred past, and the Soviet era. In a world consumed with the supposed political dangers of Islam, Gatling shows the intricate, ground-level ways that Muslim expressive culture intersects with authoritarian politics, not as artful forms of resistance but rather as a means to shape Sufi experiences of the present.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299316808
ISBN-10: 0299316807
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 9 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World


Recenzii

"Drawing on tradition, poetry, and Sufi practice, Gatling shows how the present—and the nostalgia it facilitates—is always produced within a political context that tries to manage cultural expression. A lasting contribution to Central Eurasian studies and Islamic studies that deserves to be widely read."
—David Montgomery, author of Practicing Islam: Knowledge, Experience, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan

"Offers important insights into Islam, and Sufism more particularly, in Tajikistan, as well as to more general debates about tradition, social memory, temporality, and expressive forms." —Maria Louw, author of Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Notă biografică

Benjamin Gatling is an assistant professor of folklore at George Mason University.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations                
Acknowledgments                 
A Note on Transliteration                  
 
Introduction               
1 Sufism in Tajikistan            
2 Nostalgia and Muslimness              
3 Narrating the Past               
4 Material Sainthood             
5 Remembering God              
6 Learning to Be Sufi            
Epilogue                     
 
Tajiki Terms and Phrases                   
Notes              
Bibliography              
Index

Descriere

This eloquent ethnography reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslims in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics and contributes to broader scholarly debates about tradition, social memory, temporality, and expressive forms.