Shadows of the Prophet : Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism Hardback
by Douglas S. Farrer
Part of the Muslims in Global Societies Series series
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Contemporary accounts of Malay culture that focus on shamanism, dance, medicine and performance reveal only a partial view of Malay mysticism.
However, given knowledge of the Malay martial art (silat) a more comprehensive understanding of Malay mysticism, religion, sorcery and magic becomes possible.
Recognizing the silat master's (guru silat) role in Malay mysticism recon? gures the social anth- pology of Malay religion, sorcery and magic.
Hence this account explores Malay mysticism, shamanism and sorcery from the perspective of silat, which may be considered as a kind of embodied war magic or warrior religion.
Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Su Mysticism is based upon my d- toral dissertation (Farrer 2006b).
Part I of the book, re ections, outlines the meth- ological and theoretical base of the research.
Chapter 1 outlines the ? eldwork method of performance ethnography used to investigate a transnational silat organization called Seni Silat Haqq Melayu.
This group are an offshoot of the Islamic Haqqani- Naqshbandi Su? Order headed internationally by Shaykh Nazim, and led in Sou- east Asia by a Malay Prince; H.
R. H. Shaykh Raja Ashman. Readers who prefer to delve directly into the ethnographic materials may skip Chapter 2, which contains an extensive academic literature review of anthropological theories of art, embo- ment, magic, and performance read alongside Malay animism, shamanism, ritual and theatre.
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- Pages:311 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; XX, 311 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:31/07/2009
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- ISBN:9781402093555
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:311 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; XX, 311 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:31/07/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781402093555
