Sufis and Saints : Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam.

Islam is often described by Orientalists as particularly abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott A. 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 fr...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kugle, Scott
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
Subjects:
Human body > Religious aspects > Islam.
Human body (Philosophy)
Sufism > Doctrines.
Mysticism > Islam.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
Mysticisme > Islam.
Soufisme > Doctrines.
Human body > Religious aspects > Islam
Mysticism > Islam
Sufism > Doctrines
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