What is Sufism? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What is Sufism? write by Martin Lings. This book was released on 1975. What is Sufism? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sufis in Western Society
Sufis in Western Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sufis in Western Society write by Markus Dressler. This book was released on 2009-06-02. Sufis in Western Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the development of Sufi movements that have migrated from their place of origin to become global religious networks.
A Culture of Sufism
A Culture of Sufism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Culture of Sufism write by Dina Le Gall. This book was released on 2013-01-03. A Culture of Sufism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Culture of Sufism opens a window to a new understanding of one of the most prolific and enduring of all the Sufi brotherhoods, the Naqshbandiyya, as it spread from its birthplace in central Asia to Iran, Anatolia, Arabia, and the Balkans between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on original sources and carefully aware of the power of modern paradigms to obscure, Le Gall portrays a Naqshbandiyya that was devotionally sober yet not demysticized and rigorously orthodox without being politically activist. She argues that the establishment of this brotherhood in Ottoman society was not the product of political instrumentality. Instead the Naqshbandī dissemination is best explained in reference to a series of little-appreciated organizational and cultural modes such as proclivity to long-distance travel, independence from specialized Sufi institutions, linguistic adaptability, commitment to writing and copying, and the practice of bequeathing spiritual authority to non-kin.
Sufi Bodies
Sufi Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sufi Bodies write by Shahzad Bashir. This book was released on 2013-09-01. Sufi Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Bashir weaves a rich history of Sufi Islam around the depiction of bodily actions in Sufi literature and miniature paintings produced circa 1300-1500 CE. Focusing on the Persianate societies of Iran and Central Asia, he explores medieval Sufis' conception of the human body as the primary shuttle between interior (batin) and exterior (zahir) realities with particular attention to three arenas: religious activity in the form of rituals, rules of etiquette, asceticism, and a universal hierarchy of saints; the deep imprint of Persian poetic paradigms on the articulation of love, desire, and gender; and the reputation of Sufi masters for working miracles, which empowered them in all domains of social activity. Bashir ultimately offers a new methodology for extracting historical information from religious narratives"--Cover p. [4].
Sufism and Society
Sufism and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sufism and Society write by John Curry. This book was released on 2012-06-12. Sufism and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, many historians of Islamic mysticism have been grappling in sophisticated ways with the difficulties of essentialism. Reconceptualising the study of Islamic mysticism during an under-researched period of its history, this book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in the Muslim world, from the fall of the Abbasid caliphate to the heyday of the great Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid empires. Treating a heretofore under-researched period in the history of Sufism, this work establishes previously unimagined trajectories for the study of mystical movements as social actors of real historical consequence. Thematically organized, the book includes case studies drawn from the Middle Eastern, Turkic, Persian and South Asian regions by a group of scholars whose collective expertise ranges widely across different historical, geographical, and linguistic landscapes. Chapters theorise why, how, and to what ends we might reconceptualise some of the basic methodologies, assumptions, categories of thought, and interpretative paradigms which have heretofore shaped treatments of Islamic mysticism and its role in the social, cultural and political history of pre-modern Muslim societies. Proposing novel and revisionist treatments of the subject based on the examination of many under-utilized sources, the book draws on a number of disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches, from art history to religious studies. As such, it will appeal to students and scholars of Middle East studies, religious history, Islamic studies and Sufism.
