Baba Rexheb founded the first community of the Bektashi order in America. This ethnographic biography recounts his life through lived example and through stories collected during Frances Trix's more than twenty years of study with the dervish.
Frances Trix is an ethnographer of Islam in Balkan immigrant communities. Her books include Spiritual Discourse: Learning with a Muslim Master, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Muslim Voices and Lives in the Contemporary World. She is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Indiana University.
"A fantastic book, a rich source of unique information and insight,
a great pleasure to read for anyone, and a must for any course
touching on Muslim mysticism in practice."
*Walter G. Andrews, University of Washington*
"A rich story with many themes: exile, mysticism, the fall of
empire, friendship, community building, and much more. I know of no
other study like it."
*Sholeh A. Quinn, Ohio University*
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