Paola Abenante
Biographic Data
| ID | 124658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paola Abenante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paola |
| FAMILY NAME | Abenante |
| SIGNATURE | ABENANTE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultural Heritage and Development in Fragile Contexts
This open access book delves into cooperation strategies for safeguarding cultural heritage amidst national fragility.
Cultural Heritage and Development in Fragile Contexts
Labor and Religious Tolerance in Two Senegalese Daaras
How do people create their religious selves and a religious culture through their everyday practices and discourses? This article examines residents of two rural daaras (Sufi religious communities) in Senegal and their focus on labor and tolerance as religious practice. It uses concepts of tradition, performativity, and citation to trace the themes of labor and tolerance through historical, political, and present-day applications in Senegal. How …
Interiority unbound
This issue investigates the ways in which the Sufi repertoire of heuristic categories of intellectual and spiritual maturation (e.g. batin, spiritual growth, intuitional knowledge and inner awareness) may converge, intersect, and also diverge from modern epistemologies of the inner self. In doing so, the contributions touch upon two questions in particular. On the one hand, they discuss the relation between selfhood and the transcendent, describi…
Tasting Islam
This article describes the convergence of Sufi and modern traditions of thought within ritual practices in an Egyptian brotherhood and its Europeans branches. I disentangle the different threads behind one of my interlocutor’s words and experience of dhawq (taste), a spiritual sense that in Sufi tradition reconnects the disciple to the divine. I argue that the way my interlocutors experience dhawq builds up into a form of religious aesthetics and…
Inner and Outer Ways
This article describes how an Egyptian Sufi leader makes sense of his experiences of displacement in migration through Sufi vocabularies and disciplines, thus exploring the ways in which religious beliefs and ritual practices coalesce with the existential quest. In the first part of the text, I concentrate on how, through notions such as bâṭin and ẓâhir, as well as through his experience of the haḍra ritual, he responds to the subjective needs an…
Chih Rachida et Mayeur-Jaouen Catherine (dir.), Le Soufisme à l’époque ottomane, xvie-xviiie siècle, Le Caire, Ifao, Cahier des Annales Islamologiques, 2010, 442 p
Interiority unbound
This issue investigates the ways in which the Sufi repertoire of heuristic categories of intellectual and spiritual maturation (e.g. batin, spiritual growth, intuitional knowledge and inner awareness) may converge, intersect, and also diverge from modern epistemologies of the inner self. In doing so, the contributions touch upon two questions in particular. On the one hand, they discuss the relation between selfhood and the transcendent, describi…
Inner and Outer Ways
This article describes how an Egyptian Sufi leader makes sense of his experiences of displacement in migration through Sufi vocabularies and disciplines, thus exploring the ways in which religious beliefs and ritual practices coalesce with the existential quest. In the first part of the text, I concentrate on how, through notions such as bâṭin and ẓâhir, as well as through his experience of the haḍra ritual, he responds to the subjective needs an…
Chih Rachida et Mayeur-Jaouen Catherine (dir.), Le Soufisme à l’époque ottomane, xvie-xviiie siècle, Le Caire, Ifao, Cahier des Annales Islamologiques, 2010, 442 p
Inner and Outer Ways
This article describes how an Egyptian Sufi leader makes sense of his experiences of displacement in migration through Sufi vocabularies and disciplines, thus exploring the ways in which religious beliefs and ritual practices coalesce with the existential quest. In the first part of the text, I concentrate on how, through notions such as bâṭin and ẓâhir, as well as through his experience of the haḍra ritual, he responds to the subjective needs an…
Interiority unbound
This issue investigates the ways in which the Sufi repertoire of heuristic categories of intellectual and spiritual maturation (e.g. batin, spiritual growth, intuitional knowledge and inner awareness) may converge, intersect, and also diverge from modern epistemologies of the inner self. In doing so, the contributions touch upon two questions in particular. On the one hand, they discuss the relation between selfhood and the transcendent, describi…
Tasting Islam
This article describes the convergence of Sufi and modern traditions of thought within ritual practices in an Egyptian brotherhood and its Europeans branches. I disentangle the different threads behind one of my interlocutor’s words and experience of dhawq (taste), a spiritual sense that in Sufi tradition reconnects the disciple to the divine. I argue that the way my interlocutors experience dhawq builds up into a form of religious aesthetics and…
Labor and Religious Tolerance in Two Senegalese Daaras
How do people create their religious selves and a religious culture through their everyday practices and discourses? This article examines residents of two rural daaras (Sufi religious communities) in Senegal and their focus on labor and tolerance as religious practice. It uses concepts of tradition, performativity, and citation to trace the themes of labor and tolerance through historical, political, and present-day applications in Senegal. How …
Cultural Heritage and Development in Fragile Contexts
This open access book delves into cooperation strategies for safeguarding cultural heritage amidst national fragility.
Cultural Heritage and Development in Fragile Contexts
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works)