Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
Autor Benjamin Gatlingen 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.
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
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
—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
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.