Tasting Islam: religious aesthetics and modernity in a contemporary Egyptian Sufi brotherhood

This article describes the convergence of Sufi and modern traditions of thought within ritual practices in an Egyptian brotherhood and its Europeans branches. I disentangle the different threads behind one of my interlocutor’s words and experience of dhawq (taste), a spiritual sense that in Sufi tra...

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Main Author: Abenante, Paola (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2017]
In: Culture and religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-148
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Egypt / Sufism / Aesthetics / Modernity
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Modernity
B Psychology
B Transcendence
B Subjectivity
B Sufism
Online Access: Volltext (doi)