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Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China
Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics
2024 || Hardcover || Kai Shmushko || Leiden University Press
In the past decades, lay Buddhism has increasingly emerged in unexpected places—in the spaces in-between, beneath, above, and beyond conventional conceptions of religious or spiritual life in China. This book explores manifestations of the revival of Buddhism among non-monastic people and communities, building on mixed methods qualitative research. The book wishes to answer the central question: How do Chinese groups and individuals practice Buddhism under the socio-political and cultural c...
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The Rise of the Ni‘matullāhī Order
Shi'ite Sufi Masters against Islamic Fundamentalism in 19th-Century Persia
2021 || Paperback || Reza Tabandeh || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
How were the Ni‘matullāhī masters successful in reviving Ni‘matullāhī Sufism in Shi‘ite Persia? This book investigates the revival of Ni‘matullāhī Sufi order after the death of the last Indian Ni‘matullāhī master, Riḍā ‘Alī Shāh (d. 1214/1799) in the Deccan.
After the fall of Safavids, the revival movement of the Ni‘matullāhī order began with the arrival in Persia of the enthusiastic Indian Sufi master, Ma‘ṣūm ‘Alī Shāh, during the last quarter of the eigh...