Breathing Hearts : Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany /
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to 'breathe well' along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2024.
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| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
volume 21 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- The Ethnographer Breathes
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- "A Sufi Is Someone Who Breathes Well": The Ways of Breathing Hearts
- Chapter 1
- The Unseen Neighbors and a Dual Apprentice: Silsila, or Drawing the Lines of Transmitting Breath
- Chapter 2
- "Why Do I Suffer and What Should I Do?": The Desire Lines of Sufi Breathing-Becoming
- Chapter 3
- Techniques of Transformation: Subtle-Material Bodies in Dhikr and Other (Breathing) Practices
- Chapter 4
- "There Must Be Something Else": The In-between World of Healing Secular and Religious Suffering
- Chapter 5
- Participation in the Real: The Healing Power of Breath, Words, and Things
- Chapter 6
- "The Right-Wing Attacks Our Mosques and Our Muslim Brothers Do Not Consider Us to Be Real Muslims!": The (Anti-)Politics of Breathing Hearts
- Conclusion
- Lessons from the Breathing, Wayfaring Hearts
- Epilogue
- Sufi Breathing In the Pandemic Ruins of (Anti-Muslim) Racism
- Glossary
- References
- Index