Le sacré dans la ville: soufisme, subjectivités religieuses et identité urbaine à Alep
This article focuses on the role of Sufi forms of religiosity in shaping religious subjectivities and inscribing Islam in the urban landscape of Aleppo. In Syria's second city, Islamic values and practices often work as cultural idioms that express local processes of construction of order, iden...
| Published in: | Maghreb, Machrek |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | French |
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Ed. ESKA
2008
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Maghreb, Machrek
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| Further subjects: | B
Social behavior
B Islam B Mysticism B Religion B Identity development B Cultural identity B Sufism B Religiosity B Culture B Morals B Syria |
| Summary: | This article focuses on the role of Sufi forms of religiosity in shaping religious subjectivities and inscribing Islam in the urban landscape of Aleppo. In Syria's second city, Islamic values and practices often work as cultural idioms that express local processes of construction of order, identity and meaning. The affirmation of religious identities as structuring elements of the public sphere is a key element in the local constructions of Aleppo's urban identity. Thus, religious identities have civil and political dimensions in Aleppo, as they are constitutive of the local urban social order in contrast to the secular political and cultural order fostered by the Syrian nation-state. The expression of Sufi subjectivities in the public sphere is done through various forms of moral performance, i.e. the enactment of embodied religious principles as the framework for social practices. This continuous mobilization by the Sufis of embodied religious principles has the effect of inscribing them in the processes that shape and constitute the urban identity of Aleppo. (Maghreb-Machrekl/GIGA) |
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| ISSN: | 1762-3162 |
| Contains: | In: Maghreb, Machrek
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