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1. 1. Gracious Traditions : Contemporary Transnational Egyptian Post-Tariqa Sufism

   Författare :Frederic Brusi; Susanne Olsson; Marja Liisa Keinänen; Jonas Otterbeck; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sufism; Post-tariqa; Islam; Egypt; Saints; Religion in migration; Invisible Muslims; Individualization of religion; barzakh; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

   Sammanfattning : An overarching aim of this study is to contribute to the developing body of studies of non-organized and thereby “invisible” Muslims in the West. The thesis probes into the question of what Sufism means in the individual lives of seven Muslims in the US and Sweden who share a relatively privileged Egyptian socio-economic background. LÄS MER

3. 2. Melamisufism i Bosnien : en dold gemenskap

   Författare :Ask Gasi; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; mysticism; modern history; migration; micro history; Melami Sufism; mekam; Kosovo; Islam in Europe; Islam; Ibn Arabi; Hajrullah Abdurahmanović; family traditions; ethnic relations; Bosniaks; Bosnia; biography; the Balkans; Risalei-salihijja; Sufism in Sweden; spirituality; Sufism; tevhid; zikr.;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on Melami history in Bosnia with emphasis on the 20th century. The well-known Melami master Hajrullah Abdurahmanovic (d. 1965) in this study becomes an exponent for changes in the political and social role of religion in course of the 20th century. LÄS MER

4. 3. American Dervish: Making Mevlevism in the United States of America

   Författare :Simon Sorgenfrei; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sufism; Mevlevi Sufism; Esotericism; Performance; Ritual; Islam; Women and Religion; Rumi; Mevlevi Order of America; Sufism;

   Sammanfattning : In the late 1970s, the Turkish Mevlevi Sufi sheikh Süleyman Dede arrived from Konya, Turkey, in the United States. There he initiated a number of individuals primarily belonging to American esoteric groups as sheikhs in the Mevlevi order, known in Euro-America as the whirling dervishes. LÄS MER

5. 4. Sufism and the Quest for Spiritual Fulfilment in D. H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow"

   Författare :Fereshteh Zangenehpour; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; D. H. Lawrence; The Rainbow; Sufism; Persian poetry; spiritualism; mysticism; transcendentalism; immanence; Persian ancient religions; Phoenix;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of Lawrence's religious concerns and focuses on how they took shape in his writing. Attention is primarily given to Lawrence as a mystical writer and the degree to which this distinction becomes evident in his novel, The Rainbow. LÄS MER

7. 5. Lovers of Muhammad : A Study of Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufis in the Twenty-First Century

   Författare :Simon Stjernholm; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sufism; Islam; Britain; Naqshbandi-Haqqani; Shaykh Nazim; Hisham Kabbani; Sufi Muslim Council; transnationalism; discursive tradition; narrative; hagiography; dhikr;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to contribute, both empirically and theoretically, to the field of study within Islamology that concerns contemporary Sufism in non-Muslim majority societies. It does so by investigating how activities and narratives provide meaning and identity for participants in the transnational Sufi movement Naqshbandi-Haqqani. LÄS MER