Saints and sons : : the making and remaking of the Rashidi Ahmadi Sufi order, 1799-2000 / / by Mark Sedgwick.
This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author iden...
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| Superior document: | Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, v. 97 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ;
v. 97. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (271 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the order, and the limiting effect on even the greatest shaykhs of their followers' expectations. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1280859784 9786610859788 9047406079 1433705893 |
| ISSN: | 1385-3376 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Mark Sedgwick. |