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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Valdinoci, Mauro

Titel

Kenneth Lizzio. Ritual and Charisma in Naqshbandi Sufi Mysticism

Ist Teil von

• Abstracta iranica, 2013-12 (Volume 32-33)

Ort / Verlag

CNRS (UMR 7528 Mondes iraniens et indiens)

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This ethnological study of a branch of the Naqšbandiyya Mujaddidiyya order based in Pakistan’s tribal area combines ethnological fieldwork with a historical and textual analysis that evinces recent theories in transpersonal psychology. Suggestive of an original approach to the study of Sufism, its chief aim is to correct the anthropologist’s tendency to focus exclusively on the social, political and economical aspects of Sufi orders while neglecting the esoteric and spiritual ones. The author...