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Muhammad Osama Imran

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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs : Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

Anthropology of Consciousness May 30, 2026 Muhammad Osama Imran

ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment ( tazkiyya ) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis ( faalij )? Drawing on three ethnographic...