Breathing Hearts : Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany

m is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts; explores this definition to find out what it means to 'breathe well' along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany. [Publisher's text].

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