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Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan - Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
Benjamin Gatling
Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan - Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
Benjamin Gatling
Reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid detail the range of expressive forms - memories, stories, poetry, artifacts, rituals, and other embodied practices - employed as they try to construct a Sufi life in twenty-first-century Central Asia.
216 pages, 9 black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | August 30, 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9780299316808 |
Publishers | University of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 216 |
Dimensions | 238 × 159 × 17 mm · 518 g |
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