22 juin 2023
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Abbebe Kifleyesus, « Sūfism and Syncretism in North-Eastern Šäwa », Centre français des études éthiopiennes, ID : 10670/1.zzsx2b
Sūfism in north-eastern Šäwa, as in Sunni Islam elsewhere, is a mystical movement that emphasises the intermediary role of holy men or saints and is aimed at gaining a closer connection to and higher knowledge of Allāh by its male adherents who perform rituals collectively in brotherhoods or fraternities. Moreover, the shari’ā-minded Islam is concerned primarily with the well-being of the Islamic body politic while Sūfism in the abstract represents concerns that are typical of the social and ...