Sara Kuehn is a researcher, writer, and lecturer, presently teaching at the Department of Islamic Theology, University of Vienna, working at the interdisciplinary juncture of (art) history, anthropology, theology, philosophy, religious and cultural studies.

Ch 1: Introduction: Living Sufi Aesthetics. Art, Performance, and Devotion in Motion.- Part 1: Embodied and Inscribed Devotion.- Ch 2: Bodily Sensations of a Whirling Dervish Dancer: The Art of Synesthesia in the Work of Ziya Azazi and Its Veiled Aesthetics of an Islamic Mysticism.- Ch 3: A Rite of the Crane: Aesthetics and the Transformation of Ecstatic Experience Through an Alevi Ritual Form.- Ch 4: Al b. Ab lib and the Camel that Carried his Coffin.- Ch 5: The Gracious yet “Disobedient” Calligraphy of Yelimane Fall.- Part 2: Resonance and Remix, Continuity and Transformation.- Ch 6: ‘Problematic yet Insightful: The Unaddressed Issue of the Perennialists and Their Contemporaries’ Interpretation of Islamic Art’.- Ch 7: Spiritual Journey and Its Outward Forms: Islamic Authority, Hip Hop, and Aesthetics in London’s Faya Tijniyya Sufi Community.- Ch 8: “Total Surrender”: Sufi Elements in Contemporary Kathak between Pakistan and India.- Part 3: Rupture, Resistance, and Decolonial Interventions.- Ch 9: Humans, Nonhumans, and the Malmatiyya.- Ch 10: Appropriating the Slikn’s Journey: Sufi Aesthetics Between Politics, Art, and Popular Culture in Post-Arab Spring Egypt.- Ch 11: Discursive and Aesthetic Dimensions of Pain and Suffering: Naqshbandîs and Qâdirîs in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq.