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Rearticulating drunkenness and sobriety: Epistemology and literary embodiment in the Shatḥiyāt of Abū Bakr al‐Shiblī and Ibn ‘Aṭā’ Allāh’s Ḥikam
>> back to journal articles Published in Religion Compass (2021) Rearticulating drunkenness and sobriety: Epistemology and literary embodiment in the Shatḥiyāt of Abū Bakr al‐Shiblī and Ibn ‘Aṭā’ Allāh’s Ḥikam The terms drunk (sukr) and sober (sahw) are significant discursive elements of the Sufi tradition. In the 10th century Junayd al‐Baghdādī (d. 910) initiated their […]
Reading the Self through a Hermeneutic of Divine Immanence: A Case Study of Shaykha Farih al-Jerrahi
>> back to journal articles Published in Body and Religion (2023) Reading the Self through a Hermeneutic of Divine Immanence: A Case Study of Shaykha Farih al-Jerrahi Research in the field of Sufism and gender attests to the patriarchal and elite male foundations of the tradition. Scholars highlight how patriarchal renderings of Sufism emphasize divine […]