..., was a repugnant physical presence being forced on them. It emphasized the ambivalent quality of a musical form such as bandiri that, with roots in a secular realm of entertainment, is also religious. It partakes of the elaborate Sufi tradition in which recitation of praises to the Prophet carry with them...

... ): 1753 – 71 . Aljunied Muhd Khairudin . “ Sufi Cosmopolitanism and the Subversion of Colonial and Postcolonial Enclosures: The Life and Afterlife of Habib Noh Syed .” Paper presented at the conference “Wild Spaces and Islamic Cosmopolitanism in Asia,” Asian Research Institute, National...

..., these narratives, taken together, convey a wide variety of religious practices (Salafi, Deobandi, and Sufi) and class positions (urban professional, rural nomadic, and high-bourgeois nomadic masquerading as aristocracy). Yet in their pre...

.... They set up a langar , a community kitchen usually found at gurdwaras that give free food to worshippers. Langars began as a Sufi practice to feed the needy and expanded into Sikh culture not only to feed the needy but also to join all worshippers in a simple human coming together to share a meal after...

... disputation, but we must not confuse this project with those of what has come to be called Islamic fundamentalism, as his less careful critics are wont to do: for the shattered totality his work struggles to reconstruct is not shari’a or Islamic law per se, but the Sufi...

... Under Gaddafi, Libya was a significant provider of aid to many other African countries, and Gaddafi himself was beloved by people living all over the continent. I have seen several photographic portraits of Gaddafi displayed alongside family photographs and those of Sufi saints in private homes...

... of Spain since the loss of the possessions in America and Africa.”22 Other movements would also appear, among them the Comunidad Islamica of Seville, the Sufi order of al-Murabitun led by Aureliano Perez, and Andalucia...

... source of authority for Sufi sheikhs, but bin Laden is part of the Wahhabi movement that has relentlessly attacked Sufism. Wahhabis have a more rationalist, legalistic approach to authority that deemphasizes the body and presence in favor...

.... Of the numerous adherents to Senegal’s tradition of Sufi Islam — which includes more than 90 percent of Senegal’s people — the Murids are the most influential, with power rooted in forms of colonial exchange that extend deep into the nineteenth century. Concerned that it lacked...

..., and Ahmadi, and numerous schools or approaches, including Sufi, Deobandi, and Wahhabi. Of course, there are also those who do not have a religious affiliation or are not practicing and still identify as Pakistani through national culture. Nonetheless, I argue that all of this heterogeneity is made uniform...

...- cial imaginary in diasporic culture is the strong hold that Hindu astronomy and Islamic Sufi sm has on the diasporic subject. Satellite channels like B4U and Sony are replete with (almost always British) gurus, saints, seers, prophets, and astrolo...

...). 34. For example, in North Africa, many Sufi rites have made use of extreme physical activity (dancing, twirling) in achieving spiritual purity. References...

... inquisitors as a kind of queered “pseudo-woman” ( quaedam pseudomulier ), called as she made her way into the fires of the inquisition, fire’s “relinguishment.” 48 For Porete, whose vision approximates Sufi mysticism, fire and air coincide in a kind of “coincidence of opposites.” Alchemically combusting...