Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the ‘Self’

Gender in Islamic Ritual

Jamila Rodrigues

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Routledge
30 December 2022

The Arts: General & Reference; Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance; Sex & sexuality, sex manuals

This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi community. Drawing on fieldwork in Cape Town, South Africa, and Lefke, Cyprus (2013/2014), the author examines women’s experiences within a particular performance of Sufi tradition. The focus is on the ritual named hadra, involving the recital of sacred texts, music, and body movement, where the goal is for the individual to reach a state of intimacy with God. The volume considers Sufi practice as a form of embodied cultural behavior, religious identity, and selfhood construction. It explains how Muslim women’s participation in hadra ritual life reflects religious and cultural ideas about the body, the body’s movement, and embodied selfhood expression within the ritual experience. Sufi Women, Ritual Embodiment and the ‘Self’ engages with studies in Sufism, symbolic anthropology, ethnography, dance, and somatic studies. Contributing to discussions of religion, gender, and the body, the book will be of interest to scholars from anthropology, sociology, religious ritual studies, Sufism and gender studies, and performance studies.

By: Jamila Rodrigues
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 349g
ISBN: 9780367374006
ISBN 10: 0367374005
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 30 December 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1 The Salikun journey begins 2 From theory to practice 3 The inner Islam: an overview of Sufism and Sufi notions of the body 4 Dancing with God: hadra as sacred dance and cultural embodiment 5 ‘De-code’ hadra: body movement analysis of the ritual practice 6 Symbolic embodied practice: the Sufi ‘mystical body’ and women’s religious identity 7 Let the bird fly’ … somatic practice and hadra performance, the embodied experience 8 The salikun journey ends

Jamila Rodrigues is a dance anthropologist currently working in Japan. She was awarded a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellowship to conduct research on Japanese women and well-being during times of crisis hosted by the International Research Centre in Kyoto (Nichibunken).