Sufism : a new history of Islamic mysticism /
Knysh, Alexander D.,
Sufism : a new history of Islamic mysticism / Alexander Knysh. - xiv, 389 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How and why Sufism came to be -- What's in a name? How definitions of Sufism have become a site of polemical partis-pris -- Discourses -- Sufism in comparison : the common ferment of Hellenism -- Practices, ethos, communities, and leaders -- Sufism's recent trajectories : what lies behind Sufi-Salafi confrontation?
9780691139098
Sufism--History.
Mysticism--Islam--History.
219 / K 74
Sufism : a new history of Islamic mysticism / Alexander Knysh. - xiv, 389 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How and why Sufism came to be -- What's in a name? How definitions of Sufism have become a site of polemical partis-pris -- Discourses -- Sufism in comparison : the common ferment of Hellenism -- Practices, ethos, communities, and leaders -- Sufism's recent trajectories : what lies behind Sufi-Salafi confrontation?
9780691139098
Sufism--History.
Mysticism--Islam--History.
219 / K 74