Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan

ISBN-13: 9780299316808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Benjamin Gatling

Opis

Reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid detail the range of expressive forms - memories, stories, poetry, artifacts, rituals, and other embodied practices - employed as they try to construct a Sufi life in twenty-first-century Central Asia.