Sufism in Canada

Weaving Islamic Practice and Contemporary Spirituality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvGeneviève Mercier-Dalphond,Merin Shobhana Xavier

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Whirling dervishes. Ecstatic experience. Historical and contemporary expressions of Sufism are suffused with spirituality, asceticism, and mysticism. Sufism in Canada asks how we can understand this fascinating religious practice in a specifically Canadian context and, by extension, how Sufism informs Islam and popular spirituality not only in Canada but across the globe.Using case studies rooted in Canadian concerns and communities, scholars of Islamic studies, sociology, ethnomusicology, and history analyze the meaning and practice of Sufism in this country. They investigate the institutional and transnational histories of the Inayati, Halveti-Jerrahi, and Naqshbandi orders. They explore tensions between gendered Muslim spaces and Sufism as a universal spirituality. And they revisit old Sufi stories in a new landscape.Sufism in Canada not only adds to a growing body of literature on Islam and Muslim identities in Canada, but also helps define new paths of exploration for this important field of study.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor330
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774870696

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Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond is an independent scholar in Islamic and gender studies whose work has appeared in Canadian Ethnic Studies, ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice.Merin Shobhana Xavier is an associate professor of religion and diaspora at Queen's University. She is the author of The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada and Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures, and a coauthor, with Meena Sharify-Funk and William Rory Dickson, of Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture.Contributors: Sara Abdel-Latif, Emily Victoria Hanlon, Marcia Hermansen, Amina Jamal, Naïm Jeanbart, Atif Khalil, Maryam Khan, Abdul-Rehman Malik, Alia O'Brien

Introduction / Merin Shobhana Xavier and Geneviève Mercier-DalphondPart I: Situating Sufism1 Sacred Landscapes and Universal Sufism: From Canada to South Asia / Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond2 Circles of Remembrance: The Halveti-Jerrahis of Toronto / Atif Khalil3 Sufism and Spiritual Ecology: The Pacific Northwest / Merin Shobhana Xavier4 Shaykh Ibrahim Joel Kreps: A Sufi Sage of Montreal / Marcia HermansenPart II: Practices and Rituals5 What Is "Sufi" about the Montreal Sufi Centre? A Portrait of a Neighbourhood Zawiya / Naïm Jeanbart6 The MTO Shahmaghsoudi Order: From Iran to Canada / Emily Victoria Hanlon7 Branches of Sound: The Aurality of Safety in Sufi Toronto / Alia O'BrienPart III: Reflections on Sufism8 Reweaving Old Sufi Stories: Three Canadian Writers / Sara Abdel-Latif9 Speculations on Sufism and Gender in Canada: Critical Dialogue between Two Racialized Scholars / Amina Jamal and Maryam Khan10 Light upon Light: Would Sufism by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet? / Abdul-Rehman MalikIndex