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Recognizing Sufism : contemplation in the Islamic tradition /
Sufism is all too often associated just with 'mysticism' in the West. The author of this new textbook, a former pupil of Annemarie Schimmel, suggests that conflating Sufism and mysticism is only partially valid. He shows that the vast majority of Sufi practice, both historically and in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sufism, Sufis and Transformation; 1 Qur'an, Transformative Practices and the Discipline of Sufism: 700-1000; 2 Institutionalization of Sufi Practice; 3 Sufi Shrines: Down-to-earth, Day-to-day, Devotional Sufism for the Masses; 4 Sufi Authority and Politics; 5 The Relationship between the Shaykh and the Seeker; 6 Sufi Varieties of Transformative Practice: Transformation of the Ego-Self; 7 Two Contemporary Women Sufi Teachers
- Afterword: Future Scenarios for Sufi Practice
- Guesses for the Twenty-first Century Notes; Suggested Reading; Bibliography; Index