Making Sense of Karāmāt: Narratives about the Prediction of Sufferings in the Chinese Jahriyyah Sufi Order

IF 0.8 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.13110/NARRCULT.5.2.0236

Yuan Zhao

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Abstract

Abstract:The focus of this essay is narratives of miraculous doings and sayings, that is, Karāmāt of the first two Wālīs (lit. translated as “Friends of Allah,” meaning religious leaders here) of a Chinese Islamic Sufi Order, Jahriyyah. My purpose is to look at a possible sense-making process of Karāmāt narratives applying a folkloric approach. I study Karāmāt as counternarratives challenging the authoritative voices in state-order power relation and their power in defining and redefining the sufferings of the Order followers or even the whole world in their eyes in terms of miraculous deeds, without drawing a sweeping conclusion on how these narratives should be perceived.

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解读Karāmāt:关于中国苏菲派苦难预言的叙事

摘要：本文的重点是讲述奇迹般的行为和说法，即中国伊斯兰苏菲教团Jahriyyah的前两个Wālīs（lit.翻译为“真主之友”，这里的意思是宗教领袖）的Karāmāt。我的目的是运用民俗方法来研究Karāmāt叙事的可能意义形成过程。我将Karāmāt研究为反叙事，挑战国家秩序-权力关系中的权威声音，以及他们以奇迹般的行为来定义和重新定义秩序追随者甚至他们眼中的整个世界的痛苦的权力，但没有就如何看待这些叙事得出一个全面的结论。

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Narrative Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.