Western Sufism - From the Abbasids to the New Age

Zusatztext [E]rudite and informative. Informationen zum Autor Mark Sedgwick is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies and Coordinator of the Islamic Cultures and Societies Research Unit (ICSRU) at Aarhus University in Denmark. Klappentext In this book, Mark Sedgwick shows that Western Sufism is not a recent phenomenon of the "new age" but rather is rooted in a series of intercultural transfers between the Muslim world and the West starting in the Middle Ages, and in centuries of later Western intellectual history. Zusammenfassung In this book, Mark Sedgwick shows that Western Sufism is not a recent phenomenon of the "new age" but rather is rooted in a series of intercultural transfers between the Muslim world and the West starting in the Middle Ages, and in centuries of later Western intellectual history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I Mystics, 833-1328 1. Neoplatonism and Emanationism 2. Arab Neoplatonism to Ibn Arabi 3. Jewish and Christian Neoplatonism to Meister Eckhart Part II Dervishes, 1480-1899 4. Dervishes as Angels, Deviants, and Mystics 5. Deism and Pantheism 6. Universalist Sufism 7. Dervishes as Epicurean and Fanatical Part III The Establishment of Sufism in the West, 1910-33 8. Transcendentalism, Theosophy and Sufism 9. Towards the One: Inayat Khan and the Sufi Movement 10. Tradition and Consciousness Part IV The Development of Sufism in the West, 1950-68 11. Polarization 12. Idries Shah and Sufi Psychology 13. Sufism in the New Age 14. Islamic Sufism 15. Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Mark Sedgwick, Mark (Professor of Arab and Islamic Stud Sedgwick, Mark (Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies and Coordinator of the Islamic Cultures and Societies Research Unit (ICSRU) Sedgwick, Sedgwick Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2016
• EAN: 9780199977642
• ISBN: 978-0-19-997764-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Islam / History, RELIGION / Mysticism, Islamic Studies, mysticism, History of Religion, Religious issues & debates, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Religious issues and debates, Sufism & Islamic Mysticism, Islamic groups: Sufis