Islam
The Miraculous Feminine Within Islamic Mysticism
By: TARA SHEEMAR, KHURSHID ALAM – This paper explores the pivotal role of women in Islamic mysticism and their presence in the urban landscape of modern Islamic practice. Drawing from fieldwork conducted between October 2018 and May 2022 at various Sufi tomb-shrines affiliated with the Chisti order, it investigates the reverence of women who have…
Un rituale sincretico e polisemico: la lila degli Gnawa marocchini
culti afromaghrebini, Gnawa, Islam, Morocco, possessione, sincretismi religiosi, spirit possession, tranceBy: ALESSANDRA TURCHETTI – This paper analyzes a complex ritual called lila (“night”) performed by the Gnawa, descendants of West African slaves brought to Morocco through the Trans-Saharan trade. The lila is an example of religious and cultural syncretism between Sufi Islam and African rituals of possession trance. The all-night ceremony begins with an animal sacrifice (dbiha), followed by…
Interrogating Psycho-Social Problems of Muslim Women. The Indian Experience
By: INTEKHAB HOSSAIN, SYED ABUL HAFIZ MOINUDDIN – The present paper is an endeavour to examine and emphasize the issues of psycho-social circumstances of Indian Muslim women in sociological perspective with special indication to their socio-economic, employment, educational attainment, rights and privileges, hindrances and restrictions, role and status as well as their multifarious problems from…