Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism: Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey

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Esra Çizmeci

Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism

Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey

Esra Çizmeci

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Routledge
10 November 2023

The Arts: General & Reference; Theatre Studies; Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Religious ethics; Popular culture

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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

Through extensive field research in minority Sufi communities, this book investigates how devotees of specific orders maintain, adapt, mobilise, and empower their beliefs and values through embodied acts of their Sufi followers. Using an ethnographic methodology and theories derived from performance studies, Esra Çizmeci examines the multiple ways in which the post-tariqa Mevlevi and Rifai practice is formed in present-day Turkey, such as through the authority of the spiritual teacher; the individual and collective performance of Sufi rituals; nefs (self) training; and, most importantly, the practice of Sufi doctrines in everyday life through the production of sacred spaces. Drawing on the theories of performance, she examines how the Sufi way of living and spaces are created anew in the process of each devotee’s embodied action.

This book is informed by theories in performance studies, anthropology, religious studies, and cultural studies and places current Sufi practices in a historical perspective.

By: Esra Çizmeci
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367632694
ISBN 10: 0367632691
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 10 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"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"

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.