o:id
	5422
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5422
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	When silence is “yeelen” (light): Exploring the corporeality of the mind in a nocturnal solo zikr practice (Odienné, Ivory Coast)
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25051
dcterms:date
	2021
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111489419 Q111489419
	iwac-reference-0000188
dcterms:abstract
	In the town of Odienné (Ivory Coast), Madou forges his faith in God by performing long sessions of solo zikr (recollection of God) after midnight. This article ethnographically explores the theme of light in this Sufi practice of concentration as an experiential form of being. It first describes how the light and darkness of the penumbra of the night co-initiate what I call “the devotional place” of zikr. Following a phenomenological writing, it then describes how, as hours go by, Madou’s concentration navigates towards “yeelen” (spiritual light) through the silence of the deep night. In doing so, this article elaborates the “corporeal mind” as synesthetic instants in this journey when the body becomes the mind and the mind faith, as the penumbra becomes silence and silence light. In other words, it explores the sensuous unboundedness of the self that happens in regular and long practice of nocturnal solo zikr. This article therefore offers a corporeal understanding of the light of God among practitioners of prolonged nocturnal solo zikr in West Africa.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/298
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1468
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1177/2050303220986982 10.1177/2050303220986982
bibo:issue
	2
bibo:pageEnd
	190
bibo:pageStart
	175
bibo:volume
	9

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