The anthropologist and the initiated: Reflections on the ethnography of mystical experience among the Sufis of Aleppo, Syria

Social Compass

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 464-478

  Pinto, Paulo G ^a  

^a NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

anthropology; embodiment; involvement; mystical body; ritual; Sufism; Syria

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650255070     PISSN: 00377686     EISSN: 14617404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037768610383371     Document Type: Article

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