Ethnography of Sufism- reading on Sufi Practices in Iraqi Society

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The subject of Sufism as a religious practice is one of the important topics that can be emphasized by anthropology. This is due to the interest of this field in studying all the different aspects of the social groups that spread in society. These practices are based on mystical connection with apparent behavior, The research focused on the study of Sufi practices through the ethnographic methodology based on the exact description and according to the method intensive description in the field of anthropology and through the use of information collection tools, including observation and observation in Masha The research concluded that the demographic reality and the presence of shrines belonging to the founders of the Sufi groups in Iraq (Qadiriyah, Rifa'ia and Nakhshbandi) have the greatest influence in the development of a special sense of the Sufi experience in Iraq, as well as the impact of Iraqi Sufis in the clash between the armed groups of a religious nature with the authority in Iraq, in which the daurish at present tried to form a mental image of religious practices, including the nature of the hospital to return these groups to its religious end and concluded the image of Mga Rh for jihadist movements that have spread in the Iraqi scene in the period prior to 2003, after the fall of the former political regime created a new political process.

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