Sufis & Saints' Bodies Mysticism, Corporeality, & Sacred Power in Islam

Islam is often described by Orientalists as particularly abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott A. Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.Kugle, Scott Siraj al-Haqq is the author of 'Sufis & Saints' Bodies Mysticism, Corporeality, & Sacred Power in Islam', published 2007 under ISBN 9780807857892 and ISBN 0807857890.