The abstraction of love: personal emotion and mystical spirituality in the life narrative of a Sufi devotee
Based on the recent hagiography written by a devoted khalifa of a Naqshbandi Sufi saint, Zindapir, who died in 1999 in Ghamkol Sharif, not far from the city of Kohat in north-west Pakistan, the paper interrogates the meaning of ‘love’ as the essence of spirituality and ascent on the Sufi path. Durin...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2017]
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Culture and religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 165-180 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Zindapir 1912-1999
/ Sufism
/ Mystical experience
/ Love
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| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
Sufi ‘love’
B mystical knowledge B saintly hagiography B mystical practice B Spiritual Experience B spiritual transcendence |
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Volltext (doi) |