Sufis and Saints' Bodies Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam |
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| Author:
| Kugle, Scott A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-3081-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $52.50 |
Book Description:
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Islam is often described as particularly abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.
Islam is often described as particularly abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.