Cambridge Companion to Sufism

Informationen zum Autor Lloyd Ridgeon is Reader in Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. His previous publications include Javanmardi: A Sufi Code of Honour (2011) and Morals and Mysticism in Persian Sufism (2010). Klappentext This book traces the evolution of Sufism from the formative period to the present. Zusammenfassung Sufism! the mystical or aesthetic doctrine in Islam! has occupied a very specific place in the Islamic tradition! with its own history! literature and devotional practices. The Cambridge Companion to Sufism traces its evolution from the formative period to the present! shedding light on a multifaceted and alternative aspect of Islamic history and religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Early Period: 1. Origins and early Sufism C. Melchert; 2. Pious Sufi women L. Silvers; 3. Sufi rituals E. Ohlander; 4. Morality in early Sufi literature S. Yazaki; Part II. Medieval Sufism: 5. Sufism and mysticism L. Ridgeon; 6. Sufism's religion of love, from R¿bi'a to Ibn 'Arab¿ L. Lewisohn; 7. Antinomian Sufism A. Karamustafa; Part III. Sufism in the Modern Age: 8. Nana Asma'u: nineteenth-century West African Sufi B. B. Mack; 9. Sufism and colonialism V. Knut; 9. Nana Asma'u: nineteenth-century West African Sufi B. B. Mack; 10. Sufism in the West R. Geaves; 11. Sufism in the age of globalisation I. Weismann; 12. Transnationalism and regional cults P. Werbner.

Product details

• Authors: Lloyd Ridgeon
• Assisted by: Lloyd Ridgeon (Editor), Lloyd (University of Glasgow) Ridgeon (Editor), Ridgeon Lloyd (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107018303
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01830-3
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Religion; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Religi; Cambridge Companions to Religion; Cambridge Companions to Religi; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, RELIGION / General, mysticism, History: earliest times to present day, Sufism & Islamic Mysticism, Islamic groups: Sufis