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“Baay is the spiritual leader of the rappers: performing Islamic reasoning in Senegalese Sufi hip-hop / Hill, Joseph   Article
Hill, Joseph Article
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Summary/Abstract For many, Islamic hip-hop is a contradiction. Yet many prominent rappers in Senegal have joined the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi movement and communicate religious messages through their music. Rappers have contributed significantly to the Fayḍa’s rising popularity among Dakar’s youth, popularizing the Fayḍa’s esoteric teachings through their lyrics. Although many Muslims reject hip-hop as un-Islamic, the mainstream of Fayḍa adherents and its learned leaders have embraced rappers as legitimate spokespeople for the movement. Scholars discussing change and debate in Islam have often emphasized discursive argumentation that refers to foundational texts, or “sharī c a reasoning.” This article examines four other modes of religious reasoning and demonstration that Fayḍa rappers use in addition to sharī c a reasoning to present themselves as legitimate representatives of Islam: (1) truths that transcend texts and discursive reasoning; (2) the greater good, which may apparently contravene some prescription; (3) divine inspiration and sanction, for example through dreams and mystical experiences that reveal a rapper’s mission and message; (4) and “performative apologetics,” or a demonstration of exemplary piety and knowledge such that a potentially controversial practice can be reconciled with one’s religious persona. The article focuses particularly on the case of the rapper Tarek Barham. As productive as Talal Asad’s widely accepted conceptualization of Islam as a “discursive tradition” has been, this article proposes understanding Islamic truth, authority, and experience as founded not just in discourse—especially in reference to foundational texts—but in multiple complementary principles of knowing and demonstrating.
Key Words Performance  Sufism  Hip-hop  Islam  Senegal Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse 
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ID:   103964


Analyzing Taliban taranas (chants): an effective Afghan propaganda artifact / Johnson, Thomas H; Waheed, Ahmad   Journal Article
Johnson, Thomas H Journal Article
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Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract This article describes and analyzes a little understood Afghan Taliban propaganda tool: chants or taranas. These melodic refrains effectively use historical narratives, symbology, and iconic portraits. The chants are engendered in emotions of sorrow, pride, desperation, hope, and complaints to mobilize and convince the Afghan population of the Taliban's worldview. The chants represent culturally relevant and simple messages that are communicated in a narrative and poetic form that is familiar to and resonates with the local people. They are virtually impossible for the United States and NATO to counter because of Western sensitivities concerning religious themes that dominate the Taliban narrative space, not to mention the lack of Western linguistic capabilities, including the understanding and mastering the poetic nature of local dialects.
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ID:   039982


Arabs: their history culture and place in the modern world / Hottinger, Arnold 1963  Book
Hottinger, Arnold Book
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Publication London, Thames and Hudson, 1963.
Description 344p.Hbk
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ID:   089865


Art, self -censorship, and discourse contemporary moroccan arti / Becker, Cynthia J   Journal Article
Becker, Cynthia J Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Key Words Sufism  Art History  Gender Roles  Moroccan Artists  Amazigh Identity 
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ID:   168970


Azerbaijan between Two Empires: a Contested Borderland in the Early Modern Period (Sixteenth‒Eighteenth Centuries) / Zarinebaf, Fariba   Journal Article
Zarinebaf, Fariba Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The first part of the paper examines the evolution and transformation of Safavid ideology in the context of confessional changes and the role of Turkoman tribes in the Safavid social movement in the Ottoman‒Iranian borderland. The second part examines the impact of Ottoman‒Safavid wars and religious rivalry on the society and economy of Azerbaijan from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
Key Words Azerbaijan  Social Movements  Sufism  Ottoman  Anatolia  Qizilbash 
Safavid  Empires and Borderlands 
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Biographical tradition in Sufism: the tabaqat genre from al-sulami to Jami / Mojaddedi, Jawid A 2001  Book
Mojaddedi, Jawid A Book
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Publication Surrey, Curzon Press, 2001.
Description ix, 230p.
Series Curzon studies in Asian religion
Standard Number 9780700713592
Key Words Sufism  Tradiotion of Sufism 
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ID:   161394


Citations of ʿAttār and the Kanz al-Haqāyeq in ʿAli Akbar Khatāyi’s Book of China: a sufi path of bureaucracy / Hemmat, Kaveh Louis   Journal Article
Hemmat, Kaveh Louis Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract ʿAli Akbar Khatāyi’s Khatāynāmeh (Book of China), a detailed description of state and society in Ming China written in 922/1516, includes citations from the Kanz al-Haqāyeq (attributed to Mahmud Shabestari) and ʿAttār’s Elāhināmeh. By citing these two texts at key points in his description of the Chinese government, Khatāyi articulates a radical political vision in which the civil officials, rather than the emperor, are the true rulers. Furthermore, by using the Kanz al-Haqāyeq as a portal text, and through frequent citations of other gnostic poetry, he crafts his own authorial presence by identifying his own text with fotovvat and gnosticism, and invokes a conceptual framework based on the thought of Ibn ʿArabi epitomized in his intertexts.
Key Words Political Theory  China  Ottoman Empire  Sufism  Poetry  Attar 
Messianism  Futuwwa  Mahmud Shabistari  Hurufism 
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Conservative sufism in the Pakhtun borderland: Bayazid Ansari and Roushaniya movement / Yaqubi, Himayatullah   Journal Article
Yaqubi, Himayatullah Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Key Words Sufism  Borderland  Khyber  Pakhtun  Bayazid Ansari  Roushaniya 
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ID:   190940


Contesting the milad: Deobandis and Barelvis in British India and contemporary Pakistan / Sajjad, Mohammad Waqas   Journal Article
Sajjad, Mohammad Waqas Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article examines Deobandi and Barelvi discourses on the milād, the celebration of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, an important marker of Barelvi identity and a primary site of contestation. It argues that milād indicates a significant development in the discourses of conflict between the ‘ulamā (religious scholars) of the two traditions as they have moved from subtle debates into categorically oppositional ones in Pakistan. This includes diverging from the opinions of ‘ulamā of the past, given the present competitive context. The milād is a site, event, and ritual in which both groups of ‘ulamā situate themselves as orthodox lovers of the Prophet, and the other as disrespectful or bidatī, bringing innovations into Islam. This also shows Islam as a discursive tradition, as both the conflict on and the practices of milād find historical precedents to justify positions in the present, while demonstrating changes in emphasis, contestations, and perceptions of self and other over time. As a result, when the Deobandi and Barelvi traditions have come to oppose and embrace the milād, in almost absolute terms in Pakistan today, they are also demonstrating subtle but significant developments in South Asian Islam over the past century.
Key Words Pakistan  Sufism  Deobandi  Barelvi  Ahmed Raza Khan  MilAd 
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ID:   170538


Easter sunday bombings and the crisis facing Sri Lanka’s muslims / Imtiyaz. A R M   Journal Article
Imtiyaz. A R M Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This paper primarily examines the Easter Sunday bombing plotted and executed by a group of Sri Lankan Muslims and post-war Sri Lankan conditions among Sri Lankan Muslims, also known as Moors. The article will attempt to argue that (a) the post-war violence and organized Islamophobia among non-Muslim communities in general and the Sinhalese in particular increased fears and distrust among Sri Lankan Muslims in general; and (b) state concessions to Muslim political leaders, who supported successive Sri Lankan ruling classes from independence through the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009, have meant an isolation of the community from the other two main ethnic communities. The concessions that the Muslim community has won actively helped the Muslim community to be proactive in its religious practices and thus paved the way for exclusive social and political choices. The rise of Islamic movements and mosques in the post-1977 period galvanized Muslims. In time this isolation has been reinforced by socio-religious revival among Muslims whose ethnic identity has been constructed along the lines of the Islamic faith by Muslim elites. Despite this revival it has been clear that the Muslim community has been reluctant to use Islamic traditions and principles for peace building, which could have helped to ease tensions, brought about by the 30-year-old ethnic conflict. Finally, some pragmatic ways to ease tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims in the greater discipline of conflict resolution are explored using traditions within Islam.
Key Words Sri Lanka  Identity  Sufism  Wahhabism  Islamophobia  Masjid 
Halal 
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ID:   104061


From revival to mutation: the religious personnel of Islam in Tajikistan, from de-Stalinization to independence (1955-91) / Dudoignon, Stephane A   Journal Article
Dudoignon, Stephane A Journal Article
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Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract On the basis of a reconstruction of the careers of a variety of religious personnel of Islam in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, from de-Stalinization to independence, this article aims to shed light on some neglected features of Islam in Soviet Central Asia. Questioning the present-day hagiographic process, and confronting the data of oral history with those of pre-modern Muslim hagiography and biographies of religious scholars, this article assesses the specific Islamic revival that has been taking place in Central Asia in the aftermath of the reopening of the Gulag in 1955-56. It also deals with the lasting Kulturkampf, engineered by the Soviet authorities, between the Fergana-born Uzbek-speaking accredited staff of the Muslim Spiritual Board on the one hand, and the Persian-speaking leaders of prominent Sufi lineages with Bukhara and Samarqand pedigrees on the other. The role of mass population transfers in this phenomenon is evoked through their impact on the disruption of the Sufi masters' sacred 'territories' (Persian: qalamraw), and the increasing role of the latter as community builders. Acting as alternative figures to pre-modern khans, the Soviet saints of Islam, who have become the objects of a rich hagiographic process, are also introduced as the bearers and transmitters of pre-modern court culture that vanished from Central Asia in the early 1920s. Special consideration is given to the mutual relationship and competition between the scholars ('ulama) of the Spiritual Board and the gnostics ('urafa) of the Sufi paths, as well as to the former's contribution to a revival of Turkic Islamic culture - notably through the comment of Chaghatay didactical literature within active, though underground, literary circles.
Key Words Biography  Central Asia  Tajikistan  Sufism  Hagiography  Religious Personnel 
Religious Sociology  Islam 
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ID:   177712


From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song ‘Imam Hüsäynim’ / Qian, Mu   Journal Article
Qian, Mu Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract ‘Imam Hüsäynim’, a traditional song about the martyrdom of the Shi’a Imam Husayn ibn Ali, has been popular among the Uyghur Sufis in Khotan, an oasis town in Xinjiang, or Chinese Central Asia. People perform it in the dastan epic, mäshräp gathering, and localized samāʿ ritual. The categorization of these repertoires is based not only on musical styles but also on religious meanings, which makes ‘Imam Hüsäynim’ a song that can be used across repertoires. Although the song is about a Shi’a Imam, the Uyghur people, who are dominantly Sunni Muslims, do not associate it with Shi’a Islam but receive it as a song about the history of Islam in general. Outside the Sufi community, the song’s melody has been adapted as the theme song of a comedy film and a propaganda song to promote a county’s image. These incarnations of the song have lost the meaning of ‘Imam Hüsäynim’ because of radical changes of its text and context. Why has this particular melody been appropriated in these various ways, and what are the dynamics among its different versions and incarnations? Based on ethnographic research in Khotan and relevant ethnomusicological literature, this article will discuss the factors that determine the meanings of ‘Imam Hüsäynim’ and its incarnations, and the broader issue of repertoire crossover.
Key Words Central Asia  China  Uyghur  Sufism  Islam 
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ID:   090410


From sufism to fundamentalism: the Mahdiyya and the Wahhabiyya / Warburg, Gabriel R   Journal Article
Warburg, Gabriel R Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract Both the Wahhabiyya and the Mahdiyya were based on different styles of tajdid (renewal). The Mahdiyya was based on the charisma of its leader and was a leader oriented tajdid movement. The Wahhabiyya, on the other hand, was a message oriented movement, which viewed Sufism with hostility. In contrast to Sufi traditions, which embraced al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, who claimed that he was _Khalifat Rasul Allah, Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab embraced tawhid (Unitarianism), as his guiding message. Consequently, the neo-Mahdiyya, which emerged during the twentieth century, shied away from radicalism, and became part of the Sudanese Political establishment. The Wahhabiyya, on the other hand, maintained its tajdid message, and gradually emerged as part of the Jihad oriented, Islamic fundamentalism.
Key Words Islamic Fundamentalism  Jihad  Fundamentalism  Sufism  Mahdiyya  Wahhabiyya 
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ID:   153020


Genealogy of society: mapping the relationship between samaj and civil society in Bangladesh / Iqbal, Iftekhar   Journal Article
Iqbal, Iftekhar Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This paper explores the anxious and sometimes hostile relationship between modern forms of civil society and non-modern institutions in Bangladesh. I argue that an uneasy relationship arises from civil society's inability or lack of initiative to identify and negotiate with ‘pre-modern’ social institutions and their remnants, which I conceptualise here as samaj. Such dissonance and disengagement have been historically constructed largely with regard to the way in which the roles of the state, capital and market forces have been conceptualised at the interface between ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’. This proposition demands a genealogical understanding of the relationship between civil society and samaj, in which the latter is represented by religious institutions such as the khanqah and the madrasa.
Key Words Civil Society  Modernity  Madrasa  Genealogy  Sufism  Governmentality 
Modern State  Banglades  Social Autonomy  Islam  Kachari  Khanqah 
Samaj 
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Hair of the Prophet: relics and the affective presence of the absent beloved among Sufis in Denmark / Rytter, Mikkel   Journal Article
Rytter, Mikkel Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This paper explore the politics of (in)visibility in Islam by discussing the affective presence and agency of relics - in this case a single hair of the Prophet Muhammad. The relic is obviously not the Prophet, but it is also not-not the Prophet, as the hair is filled with the baraka (blessings) of the Prophet and thereby seems to confirm Sir James Frazer’s thesis of ‘sympathetic magic’ where part and wholes are forever connected. Based on a study of the Naqshbandi Mujaddidi Saifi tariqa, this paper set out to ‘follow the hair’ in different settings in Denmark, Norway and Pakistan in order to discuss how it connects the visible and the invisible aspects of reality. I argue that the relic not only constitutes an affective presence of the beloved, but also that it becomes a significant agent in the establishment of an enchanted subaltern counter-public within Danish secular society.
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ID:   164024


Hidden Sufis and political effects of the unseen: cosmological activism in contemporary Lahore, Pakistan / Matzen, Ida Sofie   Journal Article
Matzen, Ida Sofie Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan, this article explores the political effects of the activities of hidden Sufi saints. In Pakistan, hidden Sufis are often said to intervene in worldly affairs (for example, in the killing of Osama bin Laden). Analyzing the wider cosmological background for claims to Sufi supremacy and power, I show how unseen—or in fact ‘supremely visible’—domains outstrip the visible world. In doing so, I examine how Sufi followers draw on esoteric knowledge to create what is in effect a political theory to analyze the violent present of opposition and terror attacks. Contrary to a general notion of Pakistani Sufis as inherently apolitical, the article thus offers an account of Sufi protection and spiritual governance as instances of ‘cosmological activism.’ To appreciate local Sufi theorizing and practices as expressions of immanent political modalities of Pakistani Sufism, I attend to my interlocutors’ versions of the Sufi principle of the ‘oneness of existence’ (wahdat al-wujud) as a potential anthropological analytics.
Key Words Pakistan  Sufism  The Political  Spirituality  Terror Attacks  Islam 
Hidden Saints  Oneness 
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ID:   096683


In pursuit of world peace: modernism, sacralism and cosmopiety / Pettmanm, Ralph   Journal Article
Pettmanm, Ralph Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract In the modernist context that frames contemporary world affairs, questions about the pursuit of world peace are typically answered in terms that prioritize the use of reason as an end in itself. Modernist rationalism is not the only way in which questions about the pursuit of peace can be asked and answered, however. There are sacralist alternatives to it and there are cosmopious alternatives to both modernism and sacralism. Cosmopiety is the heart of every global religion. Since in this article the sacral focus is placed upon Islam, it is therefore placed upon the Sufi teachings that articulate Islamic mysticism. To show what such teachings entail, those of Bawa Muhaiyadden, a Sufi saint and sage, are briefly outlined.
Key Words Reason  Religion  World Peace  Sufism  Mondernism  Sacralism 
Cosmopiety  Islam 
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ID:   131610


Islam, national identity and politics in contemporary Kazakhsta / Yemelianova, G M   Journal Article
Yemelianova, G M Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract This article argues that, unlike other Central Asian states, the official response in Kazakhstan to its Islamic revival is distinctively ambivalent and even contradictory. The Nazarbayev government has rhetorically embraced the Kazakh qoja-centred Sufi heritage and the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam as the 'traditional' forms of Islam among Kazakh nomads and perceived them as constituent elements of the nation-building process. However, the representatives of the political elite have in reality unknowingly absorbed much of 'untraditional' Salafi Islam and ignored, marginalised or even suppressed the revival of Kazakh Sufism. This is in part because of their limited knowledge of the indigenous Kazakh Islamic tradition and in part due to the younger generation's greater exposure to a range of Salafi-dominated influences emanating from abroad. The article begins with a brief historical perspective on the relationship between qoja-centred Sufism and 'Kazakh-ness' which is essential for establishing an analysis of the fissures in the current religious and political ideology pertaining to Kazakh nation-building.
Key Words Ethnicity  Nationalism  Central Asia  Kazakhstan  Sufism  Islam 
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ID:   152531


Islamic conservative turn in Malaysia: impact and future trajectories / Osman, Mohamed Nawab Mohamed   Journal Article
Osman, Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract In contrast to the allegedly puritan, ‘intolerant’ Islam practiced in the Middle East, Islam in Malaysia has always been portrayed especially in Western media as rather moderate. Given the fact that Islam in Malaysia has taken a conservative turn since the 1980s, such assertions are increasingly problematic. This paper attempts to explain the Islamic conservative turn in Malaysia and identify its social and political implications. It seeks to highlight how this conservative turn will impact Malaysian society and politics. An important impact that will be discussed in the paper is the emergence of neo-Sufi and neo-Salafi movements. The paper will end by examining the future trajectory of Islam in the country.
Key Words Malaysia  Sufism  Islam  Salafism and Conservative 
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ID:   131482


Islamic defenders front: demonization, violence and the state in Indonesia / Woodward, Mark; Yahya, Mariani; Rohmaniyah, Inayah; Coleman, Diana Murtaugh, Lundry, Chris, Amin, Ali   Journal Article
Woodward, Mark Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract In this paper we explore the ways in which the Indonesian Front Pembela Islam (Islamic Defenders Front-FPI) uses hate speech and demonization to legitimize violent attacks on organizations and individuals it considers to be sinful or religiously deviant, and civil discourse to establish credibility and respectability. We argue that the use of a discursive frame established by fatwa (legal opinions) issued by the semi-official Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI-Indonesian Council of Muslim Scholars) and tacit support from powerful political factions enable FPI to conduct campaigns of demonization and violence with near impunity and to avoid being labeled as a terrorist organization. We elaborate on a distinction between what the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies (CRCS) at Gadjah Mada University calls the two faces of FPI (Bagir et al. 2010a). The CRCS report distinguishes between civil and uncivil modes of FPI discourse and praxis. The civil mode seeks to establish the organization's credibility in the public sphere. It presents FPI as the ally of authorities in attempts to control deviance and assisting those in need, especially victims of natural disasters.
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