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Women in Sufism : female religiosities in a transnational order / Marta Dominguez Diaz.
Van Pelt Library BP188.8.M6 D66 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dominguez Diaz, Marta (Anthropologist of religion), author.
- Series:
- Routledge Sufi series ; 14.
- Routledge Sufi series ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sufism--Morocco--History.
- Sufism.
- Women sufis.
- Qādirīyah.
- Morocco.
- History.
- Qādirīyah--Morocco.
- Women sufis--Morocco.
- Sufism--Doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 192 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
- Summary:
- "The book is a comparative study of the Būdshīshiyya Order in Morocco and Western Europe. It examines the embodied expressions of Sufism by looking at the ways in which religious discourses are bodily endorsed, by exploring the religious body in movement, in performance and in relation to the social order"-- Provided by publisher.
- "Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qariyya B.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415741736
- 0415741734
- OCLC:
- 897336547
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