The Sufi journey of Baba Rexheb /
Baba Rexheb founded the first community of the Bektashi order in America. This ethnographic biography recounts his life through lived example and through stories collected during Frances Trix's more than twenty years of study with the dervish.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
©2009.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Welcome
- Meeting Baba
- Baba arrives in Michigan
- Taping talks with Baba
- Baba's Bektashi lineage
- The inauspicious event and young Ali
- The return of Ali Haqi Baba
- Selim Ruhi Baba
- Baba's Balkan heritage
- Baba's hometown and coming of age
- Baba as a young dervish in a young country
- The path of exile
- Leaving the homeland
- Displaced persons camps
- Waiting in Egypt
- At the Muqattam Tekke of Cairo
- Gifts to Baba from the saint
- Leaving Egypt
- Coming to America
- Founding the tekke in Michigan
- Securing the tekke
- Early decades at the tekke
- Baba bajram's time
- A dearth of dervishes
- Later decades at the tekke
- Gentle teaching
- Learning at the tekke
- With Baba in the beyond
- Baba's last days and journey back
- Baba's funeral and our journey.