Expressions Of Sufi Culture In Tajikistan

Reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid detail the range of expressive forms - memories, stories, poetry, artifacts, rituals, and other embodied practices - employed as they try to construct a Sufi life in twenty-first-century Central Asia.

• | By (Author): Benjamin Gatling
• | Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 28, 2018
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0299316807
• | ISBN-13: 9780299316808