This paper looks at tariqa-based Sufism, the mystical aspect of Islamic practice, as an example of how archival thinking is used to traditionalize practices by way of religious memory. There is currently a lack of engagement in archival studies with religion and religious practices. Because we are aware of the ways that communities remember through embodied ritual as well as of the powerful relationship between affect and archiving, looking at how religious communities remember seems natural. Key archival concepts of provenance, authenticity, and original order can be seen to be at work in the ways in which Sufi communities seek to preserve both knowledge and spiritual experiences. This has led the author to conceive of tariqa-based Sufism as a system of conscious documentation of spiritual lineages, practices, sacred texts, and experiential knowledge of the Divine.

本文考察了基于塔里卡语的苏非派，这是伊斯兰实践的神秘面纱，作为一个示例，说明了如何使用档案思维通过宗教记忆将实践传统化。当前缺乏参与宗教和宗教习俗的档案研究的机会。因为我们了解社区通过具体的仪式记忆的方式以及情感与存档之间的强大关系，所以我们来看宗教社区的记忆方式似乎很自然。源头，真实性和原始秩序的关键档案概念可以看作是苏非派社区寻求既保留知识又保留精神经历的方式起作用。这导致作者将以塔里卡语为基础的苏菲派设想为对精神世系，习俗，神圣文本，