La Devoción Sufí

This article examines the centrality of invoking Allah’s name and presence in the devotional practices of two Sufi brotherhoods. I argue that dhikrs function as devotional acts structured around a triad of categories: ritual (the interplay of words and bodily gestures), aesthetics (the role of the voice in recitation), and interaction (semantic sociability and symbolic communication). Between August 2022 and January 2023, I conducted fieldwork in Rosario, Argentina, observing private gatherings in homes among converts to Islam and followers of the Naqshbandiyya order. Additionally, between March and July 2023 and between February and April 2024, I carried out ethnographic research in Niterói, Brazil, focusing on Ramadan gatherings of Muridiyya disciples at a local association, attended primarily by Senegalese of Wolof ethnicity.