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Critical Thin. Haunting Sufis and the Also-Here of Migration in Berlin

Kasmani_2021_Critical Thin

Kasmani_2021_Critical Thin

Kasmani, Omar – 2021

This article delves into the spectral and affective reserves of Zikr, the Sufi exercise of godly remembrance. It explores how performances of religious longing broaden the moral experience of a post-migrant Berlin by offering contemporary believers critically thin zones of hypersocial contact with Islamic holy figures. Zikr emerges as a key interface of felt and material worlds: through acts of remembrance, subliminal figures and migrant inheritances are made contemporaneous while suppressed civic-political matters find a spectral, more-than-visual presence in Berlin. Sufi haunting thus achieves, amid enduring conditions of migration, a provisional positioning of the not-here and the not-now as an also-here. Such remembrance affords migrants a greater awareness of being distinctly historical as well as the critical means to look past conditions of the present.

Title
Critical Thin. Haunting Sufis and the Also-Here of Migration in Berlin
Author
Kasmani, Omar
Date
2021
Appeared in
2022 - Religion and Society 12 (1)
Type
Text
Size or Duration
pp. 56-69