Attaining the mystical body: Indian Sufi ascetic practices
While anthropologists have carefully documented various Sufi orders, the bulk of these studies focus on socio-historic and organisational aspects of Sufism. This has been especially the case of Sufis in India. There is an apparent lack of examining experiential aspects Sufi mystical practices. In In...
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2012
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The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 2012, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-83 |
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