Journeys of a Sufi Musician

Journeys of a Sufi Musician

Author: Kudsi Erguner

Publisher: Saqi Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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Kudsi Erguner's memoir sets out to share not only the final moments of a vanished community, but also to relate the encounter of traditional Sufi culture with the Western world. He raises issues relating to the transmission of a teaching both musical and spiritual, and the role of a "traditional" musician.


The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb

The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb

Author: Frances Trix

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2011-09-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1934536547

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Baba Rexheb, a Muslim mystic from the Balkans, founded the first Bektashi community in America. This is his life story and the story of his communities: the traditional Bektashi tekke in Albania where he first served, the displaced persons camps to which he escaped after the war, the centuries-old tekke in Cairo where he waited, and the Bektashi community that he founded in Michigan in 1954 and led until his passing in 1995. Baba Rexheb lived through the twentieth century, its wars, disruptions, and dislocations, but still at a profound level was never displaced. Through Bektashi stories, oral histories, and ethnographic experience, Frances Trix recounts the life and times of this modern Sufi leader. She studied with Baba Rexheb in his community for more than twenty years. As a linguistic anthropologist, she taped twelve years of their weekly meetings in Turkish, Albanian, and Arabic. She draws extensively on Baba's own words, as well as interactions at the Michigan Bektashi center, for a remarkable perspective on our times. You come to know Baba Rexheb and his gentle way of teaching through example and parable, poetry and humor. The book also documents the history of the 700-year-old Bektashi order in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Balkans and Egypt and its transposition to America. It attests to the role of Sufi centers in Islamic community life and their interaction with people of other faiths.


Nocturnal Music in the Land of the Sufis

Nocturnal Music in the Land of the Sufis

Author: Jurgen Wasim Frembgen

Publisher: OUP Pakistan

Published: 2012-03-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199065066

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In Nocturnal Music in the Land of the Sufis Jürgen Wasim Frembgen takes the reader along on his fascinating mystical journeys into the musical worlds of Pakistan. In dense description he tells about his personal experiences and emotions while participating in ecstatic nights of music at Sufi shrines, attending trance rituals and listening enraptured to sublime and refined classical music in private music rooms in Lahore. In his ethnographic narrative he unfolds authentic cultural contexts and life worlds in which music is deeply embedded, tracing how music is perceived and 'tasted' by listeners.


Sacred Spaces

Sacred Spaces

Author: Samina Quraeshi

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-03-31

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0873658590

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Quraeshi provides a vision of Islam in South Asia enriched by art and by a female perspective on the diversity of Islamic expressions of faith. An account of a journey through the author’s childhood homeland, the book reveals the deeply spiritual nature of major centers of Sufism in the central and northwestern heartlands of South Asia.


The Music of Life

The Music of Life

Author: Inayat Khan

Publisher: Suluk Press

Published: 1998-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780930872380

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Teachings on sound presenting a vision of the harmony which underlies and infuses every aspect of life. Science of breath, law of rhythm, the creative process, healing power and psychological influence of music.


The Lost Fragrance of Infinity

The Lost Fragrance of Infinity

Author: Moin Mir

Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited

Published: 2021-06-07

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 8186939903

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Moin Mir is a London based writer of Indian origin. He began writing under the influence of his grandfather, a scholar of Sufism, Omar Khayyam and Mirza Ghalib. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Surat: Fall of a Port, Rise of a Prince. The Lost Fragrance of Infinity is his second book. Mir speaks frequently at leading international literature festivals on topics ranging from Sufism, history and travel writing.


The No-nonsense Guide to World Music

The No-nonsense Guide to World Music

Author: Louise Gray

Publisher: New Internationalist

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1906523126

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A look behind the catch-all term world music' aiming to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who its audience is and why it has become such a popular genre. Through chapters on the many different genres that make up this multi-faceted area, the case for music as a powerful harmonising tool is aptly put forward.'


Sufi Literature and the Journey to Immortality

Sufi Literature and the Journey to Immortality

Author: A. E. I. Falconar

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9788120806566

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Many Sufi books are written by academics from a technical standpoint; this one however is different. It is written by a mystic who has been inspired since a boy by his love of poetry which has made his life a search for beauty; this dearch culminating in his long study of Sufi Mysticism considered by him to be the acme of all mystic poetry. This book has in it many inspiring passages both poetry and prose. Short biographies are included with examples of the work of the main Sufi Mystics as well as brief commentaries for the reader who will also gain on overall knowledge of Sufi Literature.


Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism

Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism

Author: Esra Çizmeci

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1000998622

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This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey. Through extensive field research in minority Sufi communities, this book investigates how devotees of specific orders maintain, adapt, mobilise, and empower their beliefs and values through embodied acts of their Sufi followers. Using an ethnographic methodology and theories derived from performance studies, Esra Çizmeci examines the multiple ways in which the post-tariqa Mevlevi and Rifai practice is formed in present-day Turkey, such as through the authority of the spiritual teacher; the individual and collective performance of Sufi rituals; nefs (self) training; and, most importantly, the practice of Sufi doctrines in everyday life through the production of sacred spaces. Drawing on the theories of performance, she examines how the Sufi way of living and spaces are created anew in the process of each devotee’s embodied action. This book is informed by theories in performance studies, anthropology, religious studies, and cultural studies and places current Sufi practices in a historical perspective.