Sufism East and West : mystical Islam and cross-cultural exchange in the modern world /

Sufism East and West : mystical Islam and cross-cultural exchange in the modern world /

"In Sufism East and West, the contributors investigate the redirection and dynamics of Sufism in the modern era, specifically from the perspective of global cross-cultural exchange. Edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, the book explores the role of mystical Islam in the complex interc...

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Other Authors: Malik, Jamal (Editor), Zarrabi-Zadeh, Saeed (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Studies on Sufism 2.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

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Sufism.
East and West.

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Call Number: BP189.2

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Transliteration
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction 1 /
  • Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh
  • 1 The Dabistan and Orientalist Views of Sufism 33 /
  • Carl W. Ernst
  • 2 Definitions of Sufism as a Meeting Place of Eastern and Western "Creative Imaginations" 53 /
  • Alexander Knysh
  • 3 Sufi Amnesia in Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Tahdhib al-Akhlaq  76 /
  • Jamal Malik
  • 4 Discussing the Sufism of the Early Modern Period: A New Historiographical Outlook on the Tariqa Muhammadiyya  104 /
  • Rachida Chih
  • 5 Sufism and the Gurdjieff Movement: Multiple Itineraries of Interaction 129 /
  • Mark Sedgwick
  • 6 Beyond West Meets East: Space and Simultaneity in Post-Millennial Western Sufi Autobiographical Writings 149 /
  • Marcia Hermansen
  • 7 Sufism in the Modern West: A Taxonomy of Typologies and the Category of "Dynamic Integrejectionism" 180 /
  • Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh
  • 8 Between Two or Three Worlds: Reversion to Islam, Beur Culture and Western Sufism in the Tariqa Budshishiyya 211 /
  • Marta Dominguez Diaz
  • 9 Between Religiosity, Cultural Heritage and Politics: Sufi-Oriented Interests in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina 233 /
  • Catharina Raudvere
  • 10 Transmitting and Transforming Traditions: Salman Ahmad and Sufi Rock 259 /
  • Ali S. Asani
  • Afterword 273 /
  • Bruce B. Lawrence
  • Back Matter
  • Index.