Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognized as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular, and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey.

Autorentext

Esra Çizmeci is a performance studies scholar and an ethnographer. Her research interests include performance in the everyday, performance for actors and non-actors, Islam and performance, performance theory and ethnographic methods, the study of minority cultures as well as community performance.

Inhalt

Introduction: Post-Tariqa Sufi Space in Turkey

Part I: Restoring

Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives: Post-tariqa Mevlevi Devotion

Chapter 2. Designing a Post-tariqa Communal Sufi Training

Part II: Transmitting

Chapter 3. Whirling "Anytime and AnyPlace"

Part III: Transforming

Chapter 4. Sacralisation of the Body and Mind

Chapter 5. World as Manyness of Reality

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index