The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual : : Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India / / Shemeem Burney Abbas.
The female voice plays a more central role in Sufi ritual, especially in the singing of devotional poetry, than in almost any other area of Muslim culture. Female singers perform sufiana-kalam, or mystical poetry, at Sufi shrines and in concerts, folk festivals, and domestic life, while male singers...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Author’s Note: Translations, Transliterations, and Conversation Analysis Transcript Notation
- Foreword
- Preface: woman's place in Sufism
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 History and Economy of Women in Sufi Ritual
- Chapter 2 Ethnographies of Communication
- Chapter 3 Female Myths in Sufism
- Chapter 4 The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual
- Chapter 5 Closing the Circle of the Mystic Journey
- Glossary
- Notes
- Primary Sources
- Index