Holy Time and Popular Invented Rituals in Islam: Structures and Symbolism: Structures and symbolism

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ملخص

This paper tackles three popular invented rituals in the early centuries of Islam performed in the seventh and eighth months of the Islamic calendar; Rajab and Shacbān, namely the sacrifices of faraca and catīra, fasting and prayers. In the light of sociocultural and psycho-cultural perspectives, the paper discusses the cultural and spiritual perceptions of time and space in Islam, and the reasons that make specific settings fertile soils suitable for inventing new rituals. Then, it analyses the structures and symbolism of these rituals as a means of dialogical relationship with the self, the other, and the group. The paper also sheds light on the piety folk developed by Sufism as a response to spiritual void and psychological needs that lead Muslims to invent new forms of worship. The paper will, then, analyze the scholarly debate over the legitimacy of these invented rituals and the festivities associated with them, and tackle the interpretative strategies to approve them in a long dialectical process with ‘puritan’ Muslims. In the end, it discusses the relationship of invented rituals to the embedded structure of power and it sheds light on the reasons behind the escalation of practicing these invented rituals in recent decades in the Arab Islamic world.
اللغة الأصليةEnglish
الصفحات (من إلى)123-156
عدد الصفحات34
دوريةAl-Jami'ah
مستوى الصوت56
رقم الإصدار1
حالة النشرPublished - ديسمبر 30 2018

Keywords

  • Popular Culture
  • Invented rituals
  • Sacrifices
  • Fasting
  • Prayer
  • Rajab
  • Sha'bān

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