Esra ÇizmeciPerforming Post-Tariqa Sufism
Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey
Esra Çizmeci is a performance studies scholar and an ethnographer. Her research interests include performance in the everyday, performance for actors and non-actors, Islam and performance, performance theory and ethnographic methods, the study of minority cultures as well as community performance.
Introduction: Post-Tariqa Sufi Space in Turkey
Part I: Restoring
Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives: Post-tariqa Mevlevi Devotion
Chapter 2. Designing a Post-tariqa Communal Sufi Training
Part II: Transmitting
Chapter 3. Whirling "Anytime and AnyPlace"
Part III: Transforming
Chapter 4. Sacralisation of the Body and Mind
Chapter 5. World as Manyness of Reality
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index