29 novembre 2016
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Muzaffar Alam, « 3. World Enough and Time: Religious Strategy and Historical Imagination in an Indian Sufi Tale », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.eat8df
Stories and anecdotes have been integral to sufi discourses, doctrinal expositions, and rhetorics. A large number of malfuz texts are comprised mostly of anecdotes, while even in others where the discussion is predominantly doctrinal, the exposition is interspersed with stories. Nizamuddin Auliya, Mir Hasan Sijzi reports in Fawā’id al-fu’ād, related stories from Baghdad, Bukhara, and other cities of the Islamic East in almost every gathering with his disciples and devotees. In some sufi tex...