Sufism in the West / / Jamal Malik and John R. 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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Place / Publishing House:London, United Kingdom : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 207 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jamal Malik
  • Literary productions of western sufi movements / Marcia Hermansen
  • Persian Sufism in the contemporary West / Leonard Lewisohn
  • The evolution of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi : Sulaymancis in Germany / Gerdien Jonker
  • Third wave Sufism in America and the Bawa
  • Muhaiyaddeen fellowship / Gisela Webb
  • Transnational Sufism : the Haqqaniyya / Jorgen Nielsen, Mustafa Draper and Galina Yemelianova
  • Aspects of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani order in North America / David Damrel
  • Seekers on the path : different ways of being a Sufi in Britain / Pnina Werbner
  • Learning the lessons from the neo-revivalist and Wahhabi movement : the counterattack of the new Sufi movements in the UK / Ron Geaves
  • Popular Islam in northern Pakistan and its reconstruction in urban Britain / Roger Ballard.