Sufism - A Theoretical Intervention in Global International Relations

This book explores how 'Sufism' - as an established non-Western philosophy with a remarkable temporal-spatial spread across the globe - facilitates a creative intervention in the theoretical-practical understanding of Global IR.

List of contents

Introduction

1. The Entry of Sufism into Global IR: A Move Beyond the State-of-the-Art, Deepshikha Shahi

Part I: Sufism and Global IR

2. Al-Ghaz¿l¿, Ibn al-Arab¿ and Global IR: A Sufi Re-reading of Knowledge-Power Nexus, Ali Balci

3. R¿m¿ and Global IR: A Sufi Review of Epistemology, Ontology and Methodology, Deepshikha Shahi

Part II: Debating Sufi 'Oneness of Reality': Insights from the Non-Western Worlds

4. The Potentials of the Sufi Idea of 'Oneness of Reality' in Global IR, Fait Muedini

5. Sufism and the Preservation of Syrian Spiritual Identity, Omar Imady

6. The Limits of the Sufi Idea of 'Oneness of Reality' in Global IR, Giuseppe Cecere

7. The Sufi Rhetoric in Contemporary Turkey: Find Peace in My Hegemony! Ayse Cavadar

8. 'Textual-Contextual Tension' in the Sufi Study of Global IR: Learning from Sudan, Meir Hatina

Part III: Analysing Manifestations of Sufism: Encounters with the Western Worlds

9. The American Discourse on Sufism: On the Resilience of Mystical Islam, Elena Furlanetto and Deepshikha Shahi

10. The European Discourse on Sufism: On the Appeal of Moderate Islam, James Ferguson

Part IV: Revisiting Sufism as a Global IR Theory

11. The Sufi Gobal IR Theory: Promises and Perplexities, Deepshikha Shahi

Index

About the author

Deepshikha Shahi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, India.

Product details

• Assisted by: Deepshikha Shahi (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2020
• EAN: 9781786613851
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-385-1
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Series: Global Dialogues: Non Eurocentric Visions of the Global
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; RELIGION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, RELIGION / Mysticism, International Relations, Sufism & Islamic Mysticism, Islamic groups: Sufis