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This book focuses on women’s important contribution to Sufism by analyzing the lives and seminal contributions of six mystic Sufi women to Islamic spirituality.To help reverse the …
This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba – a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu – offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social …
State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the Iraqi Ba?th regime’s (r. 1968–2003) entanglement with Sufis and of Sunni Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman …
This monograph explores the original literary produce of Muslim mystics during the eighth–tenth centuries, with special attention to ninth-century mystics, such as al-Tustari, …
Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study focuses on historical beliefs in …
Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India focuses on one particular treasure from surviving Persian manuscripts in India, Nala-yi ?Andalib, written by Mu?ammad Na?ir ?Andalib (d. 1759), a …
Focused on A?mad Ibn ‘Ajiba – an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qur’anic exegesis – this book engages critically with his theory of …
Studying the history of the notion of the ‘Perfect Human’ (al-insan al-kamil), this book investigates a key idea in the history of Sufism. First discussed by Ibn ‘Arabi and later …
This book outlines the role of Sufism in Moroccan politics in the twenty-first century through a comparative study of contemporary Sufi organizations.The author begins his analysis …
Focused on Shi’ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walaya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide …