Intuitive Instructional Speech in Sufism

A Study of the Sohbet in the Naqshbandi Order

Martin A. M. Gansinger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-1732-5 (ISBN)

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The Sufi tradition remains one of the most mysterious and least understood systems of self-realization. This book demystifies the practice of the sohbet—an ad hoc discourse—as the central instructional tool in the globally influential Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order. It approaches the practice using categories of improvised music to establish a framework for analyzation. Its ritualized formal structure, illustrated via selected talks of Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani, discloses the underlying—and assumingly primary—function to provoke prolonged states of raised awareness in listeners and condition their sympathetic nervous system. In an extensive discussion based on several years of field research in Cyprus, the book relates this intention to similar practices in other traditional knowledge systems by proposing psychophysical interpretations based on psychology, biochemistry, neuroscience, or quantum physics. It will appeal to scholars and students of Sufism, Islamic studies, and comparative religion, as well as those interested in performance studies and improvised music, interpersonal communication, and education.

Martin Abdel Matin Gansinger studied Communication Science and Political Science at the University of Vienna. He conducted ethnographic research on improvised music in Ghana and among the Bobo Shanti Mansion of Rastafari, as well as at the convent of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi Order in Cyprus, where he worked at the European University of Lefke and Girne American University, serving as Head of the Radio, TV, Cinema and PR Department. He currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at Al Akhawayn University, Morocco. His recent publications include “From Ghetto to Gods: The (Pro)Creative Transformation of Self in Five Percenter Rap and Its Analogies to Sapiential Traditions in Islamic Theology”, “The Five Percenter Model of Self-Realization as Hybrid Gnosticism and Its Commonalities to Taoist Inner Alchemy and the Pythagorean Tetractys”, and “The Influence of Islam on Black Musical Expression and Its Re-Contextualization as Hybrid Gnosticism in Hip Hop Culture”.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-5275-1732-2 / 1527517322
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-1732-5 / 9781527517325
Zustand	Neuware