(Cambridge University Press, 2021): Part of the Elements in the Global Middle Ages series, this work examines the social and economic role of poetry in Persianate societies Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam
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In Sufi Bodies , Bashir moves from a specific movement to a broad and novel reinterpretation of Sufism itself. His central argument is that the human body was not just a vessel for the soul, but the primary site for religious experience and social action. For the Sufis of 14th- and 15th-century Iran and Central Asia, the body was the "primary shuttle between interior ( batin ) and exterior ( zahir ) realities". (Cambridge University Press, 2021): Part of the Elements
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