UID:
edocfu_9959148379002883
Format:
1 online resource (225 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-47982-4
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1-280-51823-5
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9786610518234
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0-203-08720-8
Content:
With the increasing Muslim diaspora in post-modern Western societies, Sufism - intellectually as well as sociologically - may eventually become Islam itself due to its versatile potential. Although Sufism has always provoked considerable interest in the West, no volume has so far been written which discusses this aspect of Islam in terms of how it is practised in Western societies. Bringing together leading international authorities to survey the history of Islamic mysticism in North America and Europe, this book elaborates the ideas and institutions which organize Sufism and folk-re
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. Literary productions of Western Sufi movements; 2. Persian Sufism in the contemporary West: Reflections on the Ni'matu'llahi diaspora; 3. The evolution of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi: Sulaymancis in Germany; 4. Third-wave Sufism in America and the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship; 5. Transnational Sufism: The Haqqaniyya; 6. Aspects of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani order in North America; 7. Seekers on the path: Different ways of being a Sufi in Britain
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8. Learning the lessons from the neo-revivalist and Wahhabi movements: The counterattack of new Sufi movements in the UK9. Popular Islam in northern Pakistan and its reconstruction in urban Britain; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-27408-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-27407-9
Language:
English
