Establishing Peace through a Mystic Journey towards Fana: An Ethnographic Study on the Sufi Culture of Maizbhandar in Chittagong, Bangladesh
This paper examined the Sufi culture of Maizbhandar. Sufism is the spiritual and mystical branch of Islam with a concrete system of belief, customs and practices. It also focuses on the belief, traditions and practices of Maizbhandari Sufi culture. Maizbhandar has millions of followers who are following this Sufi culture. An ethnographic approach has been applied to conduct the study. The center of Maizbhandar (Fatikcchari, Chittagong) was the site (field) of the study. There were 30 in-depth interview respondents, 18 focus group discussion respondents and 1 key informant of the study and all of them were selected through a purposive sampling. Qualitative data were collected from the respondents and a thematic analysis method was used for data analysis.
