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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Yale University
2022
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MAVCOR journal
Année: 2022, Volume: 6, Numéro: 2 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Khalwa
B Méditation B Material Religion B Mysticism B Sensory Culture B Sufism B Prayer |
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| Résumé: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2475-2428 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: MAVCOR journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22332/mav.ess.2022.2 |