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We Are Lovers of the Qalandar
- Piety, Pilgrimage, and Ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam
Engelsk Paperback
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We Are Lovers of the Qalandar
- Piety, Pilgrimage, and Ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam
Engelsk Paperback

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This book is about Pakistan''s most popular Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar whose shrine in Sehwan Sharif is one of the most fascinating sanctuaries in the Muslim world. At the time of pilgrimage, this flourishing cult centre becomes a vibrant place of ecstatic religiosity marked by intense forms of devotion. The present ethnographic study is organized around three themes: piety, pilgrimage, and ritual. Thus, its focus is first on visual culture and ''material religion'' as well as various aspects of religious aesthetics which highlight how sacred spaces are constructed and shaped. Secondly, it deals with the year-round pilgrimage, mainly investigating pilgrims from Punjab (including a unique life history of a female ''Sufi lineage'' from Lahore), but also discussing remarkable ritual agents in the cult. The third theme is the spectacular trance dance known as dhamāl. On February 16, 2017, a suicide bomber executed a horrible massacre among the dancing devotees.This work, which is the fruit of the author''s field-research between 2003 and 2015 in Sindh and Punjab, aims to contribute to a ''Sufism observed'' which often seems to be neglected in mainly text-based Sufi studies. It is an academic companion to his earlier At the Shrine of the Red Sufi (OUP, 2011).
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9789697340156
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
9697340153
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Udg. Dato:
1 jan 2021
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
217mm
Højde:
141mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press,Pakistan
Oplagsdato:
1 jan 2021
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