From Shamanism to Sufism

Name: From Shamanism to Sufism | Women, Islam and Culture in Central Asia
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Women, Islam and Culture in Central Asia

Razia Sultanova(Autor*in)

I.B. Tauris (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 30. Januar 2011

256 Seiten

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Women have traditionally played a vital part in Islam throughout Central Asia - the vast area from the Caspian Sea to Siberia. With this ground-breaking and original study, Razia Sultanova examines the experiences of Muslim women in the region and the ways in which religion has shaped their daily lives and continues to do so today. 'From Shamanism to Sufism' explores the fundamental interplay between religious belief and the cultural heritage of music and dance and is the first book to focus particularly on the role of women. Based on evidence derived from over fifteen years of field work, 'From Shamanism to Sufism' shows how women kept alive traditional Islamic religious culture in Central Asia, especially through Shamanism and Sufism, even under Soviet rule when all religion was banned. Nowhere was the role of women more important than in the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan, the cradle of female Islamic culture and a centre for women's poetry and music.
This area is home to the 'Otin-Oy', a sisterhood of religiously educated women and members of Sufi orders, who take a leading part in rituals, marking the pivotal moments in the Islamic calendar and maintaining religious practices through music and ritual dances. Sultanova shows how the practice of Islam in Uzbekistan has evolved over time: long underground, there was a religious resurgence at independence in 1991, boosting national Uzbek identity and nationalism - 500 new mosques were built - only to be followed by a return to persecution by a repressive state under the banner of the 'war against terror'. Now events have come full circle, and once again covert worship by women remains crucial to the survival of traditional Muslim culture. Ritual and music are at the heart of Central Asian and Islamic culture, not only at weddings and funerals but in all aspects of everyday life. Through her in-depth analysis of these facets of cultural life within Central Asian society, 'From Shamanism to Sufism' offers important insights into the lives of the societies in the region.
The role of women has often been neglected in studies of religious culture and this book fills an enormous gap, restoring women to their rightful historical and cultural context. It will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the History or Religion of Central Asia or in Global Islam.

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Preface
Chapter 1: Historical Overview
1. Early religious practices and beliefs
2. Islam in Central Asia
3. Central Asia under Russian and Soviet rule
4. Land ploughed by Cultural Revolution

Chapter 2: Shamanism in Central Asian nomadic culture

5. Theory and practise
6. How to become shaman?
7. Women and Shamanism in Central Asia
8. Kyrgyz heroic epic
9. Shamanism and Islam
Chapter 3: Sufism in Central Asia
10. Historical development
11. Main Tariqas of Central Asia

Chapter 4:Female Sufism: historical overview
12. Female Sufism: historical overview
13. Sufi poetry in Central Asia: Ghazal and female poets

Chapter 5: Transmission of Sacred Knowledge
14. Usto-shogird in medieval sources
15. Usto-Shogird tradition today
16. Mehterlik or Professional guilds
17.Professional training: Hafizlik

Chapter 6: Music and Female Sufis
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18. Sufi Masters in Music
19. Sufi music in Central Asia: from court to folk traditions
20. Maqam music and Sufism
21. Female Maqam singers
22. Munojat Yulchieva
23. Sufi origin genre Katta Ashulla
Chapter 7: Interaction of Shamanism and Sufism
24. From healing rituals to protective songs
25.Femalee shamanism in Turkmenistan
26.Galeke
27.Tajikistan
Chapter 8: Female music making:
Musical instruments and Dance
29. Musical instruments: from Shamanism to Sufism
30. Dutar
31. Dances in Central Asian culture
Chapter 9 : Female folk Sufism
32. Female Sufi practises
33. Otin-Oy as female Sufi Pirs
34. How to become an Otin-Oy
35. Current situation: female religious school in Bukhara
Chapter 10 : Female rituals led by Otin-Oys
36. Female rituals
37. Zikr
38. Other rituals led by Otin-Oy
39. "O'qish" (reading) as a ritual's session
40. Calssification
41. Ichkari: the inner space
42. Pre-Islamic believes and practices in rituals
43. Female rites of passage
44. Toy: the main ritual in human life as a Sufi feast
45. Calendar Rituals led by Otin-oy
46. Otin-Oy in Uzbek pop music

Chapter 11: Otin-Oy in the neighbouring areas
47. Female rituals in Turkic speaking world
48. How musical are female rituals
Conclusion
Apendix: 1. Female poetry
References and notes
Comprehensive glossary
Bibliography

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