Sufi shrines and stories of saints in post-war Sri Lanka

Research seminar with M. Shobhana Xavier (Queen's University, Canada).

Associate Professor M. Shobhana Xavier (Queen's University, Canada) will present her ongoing research on Sufi shrines and stories of saints in post-war Sri Lanka.

Xavier has published extensively on contemporary Sufism, including the monographs "Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and "The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2023).