Merin Shobhana Xavier
Biographic Data
| ID | 654763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merin Shobhana Xavier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merin Shobhana |
| FAMILY NAME | Xavier |
| SIGNATURE | XAVIER M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2086-962X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age by Francesco Piraino (review)
Genderless souls: Sufi women in sociopolitical contexts’
Sufism is a porous phenomenon that could be described with the categories of mysticism, esotericism, spirituality, and popular religion within the Islamic tradition. Sufism has been both at the centre of Islamic orthodoxy and morality, with many Sufis shaping Islamic institutions and doctrines across time and space, and at its margins, with Sufis challenging orthodoxy and social norms, reinventing rituals, and promoting blended practices based on…
Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran, By Seema Golestaneh
Journal Article Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran. By Seema Golestaneh Get access Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran By Seema Golestaneh Duke University Press, 2023. 233 pages. $99.95 (hardcover), $25.95 (paperback or e-book). Merin Shobhana Xavier Merin Shobhana Xavier Queen’s University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the …
The Deconstruction of Dafther Jailani: Muslim and Buddhist Contests of Original History in Sri Lanka
Although quests for religious origins have been theoretically deconstructed by scholars, discourse about religion in much of the public sphere remains enamored with originality, especially to bolster claims among groups competing over shared spaces. At the Sri Lankan Sufi shrine of Dafther Jailani in Kuragala, an obsession with origins has dramatically reorganized the space, used to justify the physical deconstruction of Muslim pilgrim buildings …
“A Divine Infection”: A Systematic Review on the Roles of Religious Communities During the Early Stage of Covid-19
Between Islam and the New Age: The Jerrahi Order and categorical ambiguity in the study of Sufism in North America
Drawing upon our ethnographic research of the Jerrahi Sufi Order, in this paper we consider an analytical problem in the study of Sufism in North America. In engaging two distinct branches of the Jerrahi Order, we draw attention to the ways in which identities and practices shaped by classical Islamic law and theology cannot be easily parsed from those associated with the New Age movement in North America. We begin by offering a brief overview of…
Juliane Hammer, Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence
American Religion 1, no. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 145–147 Copyright © 2020, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.1.2.17 Book Review Juliane Hammer, Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019) Merin Shobhana Xavier Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Juliane Hammer’s new book, Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence, employs v…
The Mysteries of the Universe: The Tamil Muslim Intellectualism of M.C. Siddi Lebbe
This article analyses M.C. Siddi Lebbe's (d. 1898) Sufi treatise, Asrarul Alam (Mysteries of the Universe), with attention to the literary networks operating among late nineteenth-century South Asian Muslims. The diversity of Lebbe's source material and complexity of his argumentation signal his broad engagement with Islamic thought old and new, foreign and local, Arabic and Tamil. Furthermore, Lebbe cast his literary network especially wide, inc…
Négociation du sacré à Philadelphie: Soufismes concurrents au sanctuaire de Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
This article is a case study of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen shrine in Pennsylvania, United States. The authors illustrate how various ‘Sufisms’ coexist and engage in contestation over the way that Bawa’s remaining disciples, new members, and otherwise interested devotees utilize Bawa’s burial shrine. The Fellowship in Philadelphia has established links with spaces affiliated with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen in Sri Lanka as well as with branches of the Fellowship…
Genderless souls: Sufi women in sociopolitical contexts’
Sufism is a porous phenomenon that could be described with the categories of mysticism, esotericism, spirituality, and popular religion within the Islamic tradition. Sufism has been both at the centre of Islamic orthodoxy and morality, with many Sufis shaping Islamic institutions and doctrines across time and space, and at its margins, with Sufis challenging orthodoxy and social norms, reinventing rituals, and promoting blended practices based on…
Négociation du sacré à Philadelphie: Soufismes concurrents au sanctuaire de Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
This article is a case study of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen shrine in Pennsylvania, United States. The authors illustrate how various ‘Sufisms’ coexist and engage in contestation over the way that Bawa’s remaining disciples, new members, and otherwise interested devotees utilize Bawa’s burial shrine. The Fellowship in Philadelphia has established links with spaces affiliated with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen in Sri Lanka as well as with branches of the Fellowship…
The Mysteries of the Universe: The Tamil Muslim Intellectualism of M.C. Siddi Lebbe
This article analyses M.C. Siddi Lebbe's (d. 1898) Sufi treatise, Asrarul Alam (Mysteries of the Universe), with attention to the literary networks operating among late nineteenth-century South Asian Muslims. The diversity of Lebbe's source material and complexity of his argumentation signal his broad engagement with Islamic thought old and new, foreign and local, Arabic and Tamil. Furthermore, Lebbe cast his literary network especially wide, inc…
Juliane Hammer, Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence
American Religion 1, no. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 145–147 Copyright © 2020, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.1.2.17 Book Review Juliane Hammer, Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019) Merin Shobhana Xavier Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Juliane Hammer’s new book, Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence, employs v…
Between Islam and the New Age: The Jerrahi Order and categorical ambiguity in the study of Sufism in North America
Drawing upon our ethnographic research of the Jerrahi Sufi Order, in this paper we consider an analytical problem in the study of Sufism in North America. In engaging two distinct branches of the Jerrahi Order, we draw attention to the ways in which identities and practices shaped by classical Islamic law and theology cannot be easily parsed from those associated with the New Age movement in North America. We begin by offering a brief overview of…
“A Divine Infection”: A Systematic Review on the Roles of Religious Communities During the Early Stage of Covid-19
Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran, By Seema Golestaneh
Journal Article Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran. By Seema Golestaneh Get access Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran By Seema Golestaneh Duke University Press, 2023. 233 pages. $99.95 (hardcover), $25.95 (paperback or e-book). Merin Shobhana Xavier Merin Shobhana Xavier Queen’s University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the …
The Deconstruction of Dafther Jailani: Muslim and Buddhist Contests of Original History in Sri Lanka
Although quests for religious origins have been theoretically deconstructed by scholars, discourse about religion in much of the public sphere remains enamored with originality, especially to bolster claims among groups competing over shared spaces. At the Sri Lankan Sufi shrine of Dafther Jailani in Kuragala, an obsession with origins has dramatically reorganized the space, used to justify the physical deconstruction of Muslim pilgrim buildings …
Genderless souls: Sufi women in sociopolitical contexts’
Sufism is a porous phenomenon that could be described with the categories of mysticism, esotericism, spirituality, and popular religion within the Islamic tradition. Sufism has been both at the centre of Islamic orthodoxy and morality, with many Sufis shaping Islamic institutions and doctrines across time and space, and at its margins, with Sufis challenging orthodoxy and social norms, reinventing rituals, and promoting blended practices based on…
Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age by Francesco Piraino (review)
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