Breathing hearts

Nasima Selim is a Postdoctoral Research Associate of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Nasima's work intersects medical anthropology, global health, public anthropology, and anthropology of Islam across Western Europe and South Asia. She is a breathworker, educator, researcher, and writer.

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Introduction: “A Sufi is Someone Who Breathes Well” The Ways of the Breathing Hearts



Chapter 1. The Unseen Neighbors and a Dual Apprentice: Silsila, or Drawing the Lines of Transmitting Breath

Chapter 2. “Why Do I Suffer and What Should I Do?” The Desire Lines of Sufi Breathing-Becoming

Chapter 3. Techniques of Transformation: Subtle-Material Bodies in Dhikr and other (Breathing) Practices

Chapter 4. “There Must be Something Else” The In-between World of Healing Secular and Religious Suffering

Chapter 5. Participation in the Real: The Healing Power of Breath, Words, and Things

Chapter 6.  “The Right-Wing Attacks Our Mosques and Our Muslim Brothers Do Not Consider Us to Be Real Muslims!” the (Anti-)Politics of Breathing Hearts



Conclusion: Lessons from the Breathing Wayfaring Hearts



Epilogue: Sufi Breathing in the Pandemic Ruins of (Anti-Muslim) Racism



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