Sufism in the West / edited by Jamal Malik & John Hinnells.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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