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The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb
Frances Trix
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Description for The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb
Hardback. Baba Rexheb founded the first community of the Bektashi order in America. This ethnographic biography recounts his life through lived example and through stories collected during Frances Trix's more than twenty years of study with the dervish. Num Pages: 240 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: HRHX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 187 x 238 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Baba Rexheb, a Muslim mystic from the Balkans, founded the first Bektashi community in America. This is his life story and the story of his communities: the traditional Bektashi tekke in Albania where he first served, the displaced persons camps to which he escaped after the war, the centuries-old tekke in Cairo where he waited, and the Bektashi community that he founded in Michigan in 1954 and led until his passing in 1995. Baba Rexheb lived through the twentieth century, its wars, disruptions, and dislocations, but still at a profound level was never displaced.
Through Bektashi stories, ... Read more
Baba Rexheb, a Muslim mystic from the Balkans, founded the first Bektashi community in America. This is his life story and the story of his communities: the traditional Bektashi tekke in Albania where he first served, the displaced persons camps to which he escaped after the war, the centuries-old tekke in Cairo where he waited, and the Bektashi community that he founded in Michigan in 1954 and led until his passing in 1995. Baba Rexheb lived through the twentieth century, its wars, disruptions, and dislocations, but still at a profound level was never displaced.
Through Bektashi stories, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, United States
ISBN
9781934536124
SKU
V9781934536124
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About Frances Trix
Frances Trix is an ethnographer of Islam in Balkan immigrant communities. Her books include Spiritual Discourse: Learning with a Muslim Master, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Muslim Voices and Lives in the Contemporary World. She is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Indiana University.
Reviews for The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb
"A fantastic book, a rich source of unique information and insight, a great pleasure to read for anyone, and a must for any course touching on Muslim mysticism in practice."-Walter G. Andrews, University of Washington "A rich story with many themes: exile, mysticism, the fall of empire, friendship, community building, and much more. I know of no other study like ... Read more