On the Material and Social Conditions of Khalwa in Medieval Sufism

Ubiquitous across the medieval Islamic world, khalwa is the practice of self-isolation, typically in a small cell, in order to focus on pious devotions. This article offers one possible approach to theorizing the heterogenous elements of khalwa coherently by insisting that we take the material and t...

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1. VerfasserIn: Hofer, Nathan (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Yale University 2022
In: MAVCOR journal
Jahr: 2022, Band: 6, Heft: 2
weitere Schlagwörter:B Khalwa
B Material Religion
B Mysticism
B Meditation
B Sensory Culture
B Sufism
B Prayer
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Zusammenfassung:Ubiquitous across the medieval Islamic world, khalwa is the practice of self-isolation, typically in a small cell, in order to focus on pious devotions. This article offers one possible approach to theorizing the heterogenous elements of khalwa coherently by insisting that we take the material and the social as seriously as we do the human and the spiritual.
ISSN:2475-2428
Enthält:Enthalten in: MAVCOR journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.22332/mav.ess.2022.2