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The Sufi journey of Baba Rexheb / Frances Trix.
LIBRA BP80.R45 T75 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trix, Frances.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rexhebi, Baba, 1901-1995.
- Rexhebi.
- Bektashi--Albania--Biography.
- Bektashi.
- Bektashi--United States--Biography.
- Sufis--Biography.
- Sufis.
- United States.
- Albania.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, [2009]
- Contents:
- Welcome
- Meeting Baba
- Baba arrives in Michigan
- Taping talks with Baba
- Baba's Bektashi lineage
- The inauspicious event and young Ali
- The return of Ali Haqi Baba
- Selim Ruhi Baba
- Baba's Balkan heritage
- Baba's hometown and coming of age
- Baba as a young dervish in a young country
- The path of exile
- Leaving the homeland
- Displaced persons camps
- Waiting in Egypt
- At the Muqattam Tekke of Cairo
- Gifts to Baba from the saint
- Leaving Egypt
- Coming to America
- Founding the tekke in Michigan
- Securing the tekke
- Early decades at the tekke
- Baba bajram's time
- A dearth of dervishes
- Later decades at the tekke
- Gentle teaching
- Learning at the tekke
- With Baba in the beyond
- Baba's last days and journey back
- Baba's funeral and our journey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781934536124
- 1934536121
- OCLC:
- 258770319
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