On the Material and Social Conditions of Khalwa in Medieval Sufism

Ubiquitous across the medieval Islamic world, khalwa is the practice of self-isolation, typically in a small cell, in order to focus on pious devotions. This article offers one possible approach to theorizing the heterogenous elements of khalwa coherently by insisting that we take the material and t...

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Главный автор: Hofer, Nathan (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Yale University 2022
В: MAVCOR journal
Год: 2022, Том: 6, Выпуск: 2
Другие ключевые слова:B Material Religion
B Mysticism
B Sensory Culture
B Медитация (мотив)
B Халва (суфизм)
B Sufism
B Prayer
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Итог:Ubiquitous across the medieval Islamic world, khalwa is the practice of self-isolation, typically in a small cell, in order to focus on pious devotions. This article offers one possible approach to theorizing the heterogenous elements of khalwa coherently by insisting that we take the material and the social as seriously as we do the human and the spiritual.
ISSN:2475-2428
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: MAVCOR journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.22332/mav.ess.2022.2