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Author Dominguez Diaz, Marta (Anthropologist of religion)

Title Women in Sufism : female religiosities in a transnational order / Marta Dominguez Diaz
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (205 pages)
Series Routledge Sufi Series
Routledge Sufi series ; 14.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Arabic transliteration chart; 1 Introduction; 2 An Historical Overview; 3 The Būdshīshiyya Today; 4 Būdshīshiyya Online; 5 Ziyāra; 6 Ritual; 7 Healing; 8 Final Caveats; Appendix 1 -- Būdshīshiyya's saintly genealogy; Appendix 2 -- Būdshīshiyya's central lodge; Glossary; Index
Summary Exploring the diverse myriad of female religious identities that exist within the various branches of the Moroccan Sufi Order, Qādiriyya Būdshīshiyya, today, this book evidences a wide array of religious identities, from those more typical of Berber culture, to those characterised by a 'sober' approach to Sufism, as well as those that denote New Age eclecticism. The book researches the ways in which religious discourses are corporeally endorsed. After providing an overview of the Order historically and today, enunciating the processes by which this local tarīqa from North-eastern Morocco has b
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sufism -- Morocco -- History
Qādirīyah -- Morocco
Women sufis -- Morocco
Sufism -- Doctrines.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Qādirīyah.
Sufism.
Sufism -- Doctrines.
Women sufis.
Morocco.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317806585
1317806581
9781315815114
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