Breathing Hearts : Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Selim, Nasima.

Studies initiative, Berghahn Open Migration and Development, Author.

Contributor:

Studies initiative, funder.

Series:

Epistemologies of Healing Series

Epistemologies of Healing Series ; v.21

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Nasima Selim is a Postdoctoral Research Associate of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Nasima's work intersects medical anthropology, global health, public anthropology, and anthropology of Islam across Western Europe and South Asia. She is a breathworker, educator, researcher, and writer. Nasima Selim is a Postdoctoral Research Associate of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Nasima's work intersects medical anthropology, global health, public anthropology, and anthropology of Islam across Western Europe and South Asia. She is a breathworker, educator, researcher, and writer.

Summary:

Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to 'breathe well' along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Preface - The Ethnographer Breathes

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Abbreviations

Introduction - "A Sufi Is Someone Who Breathes Well": The Ways of Breathing Hearts

Chapter 1 - The Unseen Neighbors and a Dual Apprentice: Silsila, or Drawing the Lines of Transmitting Breath

Chapter 2 - "Why Do I Suffer and What Should I Do?": The Desire Lines of Sufi Breathing-Becoming

Chapter 3 - Techniques of Transformation: Subtle-Material Bodies in Dhikr and Other (Breathing) Practices

Chapter 4 - "There Must Be Something Else": The In-between World of Healing Secular and Religious Suffering

Chapter 5 - Participation in the Real: The Healing Power of Breath, Words, and Things

Chapter 6 - "The Right-Wing Attacks Our Mosques and Our Muslim Brothers Do Not Consider Us to Be Real Muslims!": The (Anti-)Politics of Breathing Hearts

Conclusion - Lessons from the Breathing, Wayfaring Hearts

Epilogue - Sufi Breathing In the Pandemic Ruins of (Anti-Muslim) Racism

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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Other Format:

Print version: Selim, Nasima Breathing Hearts

ISBN:

1-80539-236-0

1-80539-200-X

OCLC:

1414468242