Sufi (Women) in Ritual
An Embodied Experience of Selfhood
Abstract
In Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the ‘Self’: Gender in Islamic Ritual, Jamila Rodrigues discusses the Sufi ritual hadra as an embodied experience of selfhood and religious symbolism. Taking the female members of the Naqshbandi community in Cape Town and Lefke as an ethnographic case study, the author considers – with mixed success – the gendered dimensions of the ritual. Ultimately, Rodrigues argues that hadra allows Sufi women not only to embody a pious identity, but also to learn about themselves through body movement expressions.
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