Breathing Hearts
Subtitle: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
By: Nasima Selim
Edition: Epistemologies of Healing, Volume 21, First edition
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2024
Place of publication: New York, USA; Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Format: web pdf
ISBN-13: 9781805391982; 9781805392361
Copyright date: 2024
Subjects: Religions
Other titles: Nein
First sentence: Healing the suffering of fellow humans is a question that has preoccupied me for most of my adult life.
Description: Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany.
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Table of contents: title: Illustration; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Note on Transliteration and Translation; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction: “A Sufi is Someone Who Breathes Well” The Ways of the Breathing Hearts; title: Chapter 1. The Unseen Neighbors and a Dual Apprentice: Silsila, or Drawing the Lines of Transmitting Breath; title: Chapter 2. “Why Do I Suffer and What Should I Do?” The Desire Lines of Sufi Breathing-Becoming; title: Chapter 3. Techniques of Transformation: Subtle-Material Bodies in Dhikr and other (Breathing) Practices; title: Chapter 4. “There Must be Something Else” The In-between World of Healing Secular and Religious Suffering; title: Chapter 5. Participation in the Real: The Healing Power of Breath, Words, and Things; title: Chapter 6. “The Right-Wing Attacks Our Mosques and Our Muslim Brothers Do Not Consider Us to Be Real Muslims!” the (Anti-)Politics of Breathing Hearts; title: Conclusion: Lessons from the Breathing Wayfaring Hearts; title: Epilogue: Sufi Breathing in the Pandemic Ruins of (Anti-Muslim) Racism; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography; title: Index