Reflecting on thoughts by Talal Asad, this paper suggests an approach to theorizing Sunniyat – the approach to Islam taken by those commonly called “Barelvis” – in South Africa by focusing on sensibilities and dispositions. It specifically examines the kinds of sensibilities that are cultivated by adherents in their relationship to the Prophet as well as in their practice of everyday ethics. The aim is to shed light on the embodied nature of these sensibilities and not just their discursive context. In Asad’s work, both dimensions are important, but discourse is a prelude to embodiment, with the latter constituting one’s mode of being in the world. In thinking about Sunniyat in this way, the works of Abdulkader Tayob and Seraj Hendricks provide important precedents for navigating both discursiveness and embodiment in a South African Muslim context.

反思塔拉勒·阿萨德（Talal Asad）的思想，本文提出了一种理论化方法，着眼于敏感性和性格，从而对南非的逊尼派（Sunniyat）进行了理论化-即通常被称为“巴列维斯”的人所采取的伊斯兰教方法。它专门研究了信徒在与先知的关系以及日常道德实践中培养出的各种敏感性。目的是阐明这些敏感性的具体本质，而不仅仅是它们的话语上下文。在阿萨德的作品中，这两个方面都很重要，但是话语是体现的序幕，后者构成了自己在世界上的存在方式。在以这种方式思考逊尼派时，阿卜杜勒卡德·塔约布（Abdulkader Tayob）和塞拉赫·亨德里克斯（Seraj Hendricks）的作品为在南非穆斯林语境中促进话语性和体现力提供了重要的先例。