âDead Men in Sultry Darknessâ: Western Theory and the Problematic of a Baseline Cultural Motif in Islamic Ascetic Tradition

Earle H. Waugh

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âDead Men in Sultry Darknessâ

Western Theory and the Problematic of a Baseline Cultural Motif in Islamic Ascetic Tradition

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Earle H. Waugh

Earle H. Waugh Department of Modem Languages and Comparative Studies University of Alberta Edmonton Canada

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Abstract

In my researches on the mystical chanters in Egypt and Morocco, I have had to grapple with the problem of how to understand the whole culture of the ascetic tradition in Islam. I have concluded that the usual procedures among Western social sciences lead to a distortion of the lived experience of the á¹¢Å«fÄ«s and may not encapsulate Islamic tradition faithfully. This paper is an attempt to sketch a modified approach.

The focal point of the paper is the claim that the potential member is initiated into a coherent socio-spiritual organization that transcends the normal time/space framework. It deals with issues of learning the code, with spiritual kin-group relationships and with the content of the spiritual cosmos. It suggests that the liturgical dimension of á¹¢Å«fism is the central ingredient of an independent-minded spiritual movement; it both holds the disparate social elements together, and connects the ordinary world with the supernatural world in an apparently seamless manner.

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Ascetic Culture

Renunciation and Worldly Engagement

ä¸ç¼ï¼ International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, å·ï¼ 73

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å°å·åºçæ¥æ:: 01 Jan 1999

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âDead Men in Sultry Darknessâ

Western Theory and the Problematic of a Baseline Cultural Motif in Islamic Ascetic Tradition

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