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Sufis and Saints' Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks)
Sufis and Saints' Bodies Mysticism Corporeality and Sacred Power in Islam - Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
Author: Scott Kugle
Islam is often described by Orientalists as particularly abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott A. Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through nineteenth centur...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807857892
ISBN-10: 0807857890
Publication Date: 3/5/2007
Pages: 368
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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