Embodying Asceticism: Masculinity, Manliness, and the Male Body in Muḥammad al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī’s Majmūʿ Rasā ʾil

Abstract This study examines the logics of masculinity, manliness, and the corporeal male body in shaykh Muḥammad al-ʿArabī ibn Aḥmad al-Darqāwī al-Ḥasanī’s (d. 1239/1823) Majmūʿ Rasā ʾil (“Collection of Epistles”). It argues that al-Darqāwī’s Rasā ʾil constructed a prescriptive pious masculinity de...

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Main Author: Landorf, Brittany (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: Journal of Islamic ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 4, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 128-154
Further subjects:B ṭahāra
B Masculinity
B gender ethics
B Morocco
B tajrīd
B ascetic masculinity
B Muḥammad al-ʿArabī al-Darqāwī
B Embodiment
B Sufism
B murūʾa
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