The vast oceans : remembering Allah and self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi path / Youssef J. Carter

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Youssef J., author.

Series:

Islamic civilization & Muslim networks

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism--United States.

Sufism.

Sufism--South Carolina--Moncks Corner.

Muslims, Black--Southern States.

Muslims, Black.

Muslims, Black--United States.

Muslim diaspora.

African diaspora.

South Carolina.

Southern States.

United States.

Genre:

Translations

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2026]

Language Note:

In English, with passages in Arabic and English translations

Summary:

"In the mid-1990s, Shaykh Arona Rashid Faye al-Faqir arrived in South Carolina from Senegal. Settling in Moncks Corner, he brought with him the Mustafawiyya Tariqa, a Sufi movement that emphasizes remembrance and inward cultivation, which he inherited from its founder, Shaykh Muhammad Mustafa Gueye. Today, Masjid Muhajjirun wal Ansar in Moncks Corner remains the center of this North American transnational community despite the Mustafawiyya Tariqa’s spread to larger cities like Philadelphia and Atlanta. Monck’s Corner serves as a haven for Muslims to build community and, as Youssef J. Carter argues, to construct diasporic consciousness as they connect with Muslims across the Atlantic. In The Vast Oceans, Carter shows that this expansion of a West African Sufi movement in the Black Atlantic offers those traveling the Mustafawiyya path empowerment through spiritual care as they confront historical and contemporary anti-Blackness. As Carter tracks the community’s thought and practice over time and space, he examines how practices of solidarity and remembrance aid in healing. Ultimately, his richly textured depiction of lived religion expands our understanding of global Islam, particularly the dynamic Black Muslim devotional practices of study and remembrance that span from West Africa to the American South"-- JSTOR

Contents:

Bayʻa

Dhikr

Ziyāra

Khidma

Tazkīya

Shifāʼ

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed June 18, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Carter, Youssef J. Vast oceans

ISBN:

9781469693613

1469693615

9781469693583

1469693585

OCLC:

1591606459

Publisher Number:

CIPO000379782

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license