Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g
Piety, Pilgrimage, and Ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam
Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g
ISBN: 978-969-734-015-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
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 dhamal. 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).