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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-01 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islami
Language: en
Pages: 124
Pages: 124
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-02-07 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their claim that
Language: en
Pages: 215
Pages: 215
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-06 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Muhammad's Body introduces questions of embodiment and materiality to the study of the Prophet Muhammad. Analyzing classical Muslim literary representations of
Language: en
Pages: 145
Pages: 145
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-30 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi community. Drawing on fieldwork