Brokenheartedness
This essay is a meditation on the condition of the heart (qalb) in the aftermath of the Shapla Massacre in Dhaka, Bangladesh (5–6 May 2013). This meditation explores the murmurs of the heart – its iterations and repetitions in the shadows of translation – from within Islamic traditions and experienc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Political theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 6, Pages: 594-609 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Shapla Square (Dhaka)
/ Political protest
/ Niederschlagung (Politics)
/ Massacre
/ Geschichte 2013
/ Psychic trauma
/ Coping
/ Islam
/ Spirituality
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBM Asia TK Recent history ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
qalb (heart)
B Bangladesh B Islam B war on terror B Deoband B Secularism B muraqaba (spiritual vigilance) |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This essay is a meditation on the condition of the heart (qalb) in the aftermath of the Shapla Massacre in Dhaka, Bangladesh (5–6 May 2013). This meditation explores the murmurs of the heart – its iterations and repetitions in the shadows of translation – from within Islamic traditions and experience, embedded in the deathworld under a War on Terror regime, as it confronts and haunts history. This is immanent muraqaba (spiritual vigilance): not practices of the self and assessment of the world in an ideal environment but a muraqaba which situates itself within the devastation of the Shapla killings. The text itself is also a form of muraqaba, a practice in which the ethnographer finds himself under the direct gaze of God, and the text – displacing subjectivity, collapsing time, and delimiting language – constructs itself, albeit in a disoriented state. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2073012 |
