[PDF.74kz] The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India

The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India

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 | #3272686 in Books |  University of Texas Press |  2010-08-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.75 x6.00l,.79 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| excellent|By A Customer|This is an excellent book that details women's performance of mystical texts in South Asia. A must for anyone who wants to know about the sociolinguistic contexts of the languages of Pakistan and India. The book has lovely photographs. Easy to read language and details.|About the Author|Shemeem Burney Abbas is a professor of political science, gender studies, and literature at the State University of New York at Purchase. She was formerly a professor and chair of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at All

The female voice plays a more central role in Sufi ritual, especially in the singing of devotional poetry, than in almost any other area of Muslim culture. Female singers perform sufiana-kalam, or mystical poetry, at Sufi shrines and in concerts, folk festivals, and domestic life, while male singers assume the female voice when singing the myths of heroines in qawwali and sufiana-kalam. Yet, despite the centrality of the female voice in Sufi...

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