Books in the Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks series

Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi ism"

Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, this title demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.