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1. Early Mystics in Turkish Literature

   By Mehmed Fuad Koprulu

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   This book is a translation of one of the most important Turkish scholarly works of the twentieth century. It was the masterpiece of M.F. Koprulu, one of Turkey’s leading, and most prolific, intellectuals and scholars. Using a wide variety of Arabic, and especially Turkish and Persian sources,...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus

   'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, 1641-1731

   By Elizabeth Sirriyeh

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641 to1731) was the most outstanding scholarly Sufi of Ottoman Syria. He was regarded as the leading religious poet of his time and as an excellent commentator of classical Sufi texts. At the popular level, he has been read as an interpreter of symbolic dreams. Moreover,...

   Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge
3. Sufism and Society

   Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200–1800

   Edited by John Curry, Erik Ohlander

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   In recent years, many historians of Islamic mysticism have been grappling in sophisticated ways with the difficulties of essentialism. Reconceptualising the study of Islamic mysticism during an under-researched period of its history, this book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
4. Muslim Saints of South Asia

   The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries

   By Anna Suvorova

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   This book studies the veneration practices and rituals of the Muslim saints. It outlines principal trends of the main Sufi orders in India, the profiles and teachings of the famous and less known saints, and the development of pilgrimage to their tombs in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A detailed...

   Published April 6th 2011 by Routledge
5. A Psychology of Early Sufi Samâ`

   Listening and Altered States

   By Kenneth S. Avery

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   Avery explores the psychology of altered states among the early Sufis. It examines samâ` - listening to ritual recitation, music and certain other aural phenomena - and its effect in inducing unusual states of consciousness and behaviours. The focus is on the earliest personalities of the...

   Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
6. Sufi Castigator

   Ahmad Kasravi and the Iranian Mystical Tradition

   By Lloyd Ridgeon

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   Sufi Castigator investigates the writings of Ahmad Kasravi, one of the foremost intellectuals in Iran. It studies his work within the context of Sufism in modern Iran and mystical Persian literature and includes translations of Kasravi’s writings. Kasravi provides a fascinating topic for those with...

   Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
7. Spiritual Purification in Islam

   The Life and Works of al-Muhasibi

   By Gavin Picken

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   Purification of the soul is a principle that is central to understanding Islamic spirituality but despite this, relatively little has been written explicitly in the Islamic tradition regarding this discrete method of spiritual purification. This book examines the work of a scholar of this...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Divine Love in Islamic Mysticism

   The Teachings of al-Ghazali and al-Dabbagh

   By Binyamin Abrahamov

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   The two theories of divine love that are examined in this book have their foundations in Greek, Jewish, Christian and Muslim ideas. Al-Ghazâlî (twelfth century) was influenced mainly by Plato and Ibn Sina's teachings, while al-Dabbâgh (thirteenth century), who accepted some Ghazâlîan notions,...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
9. Popular Sufism in Eastern Europe

   Sufi Brotherhoods and the Dialogue with Christianity and 'Heterodoxy'

   By H.T. Norris

   Series: Routledge Sufi Series

   This is a detailed description of the various Sufi orders and movements which entered into the Balkans, the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Eastern Europe following the Ottoman conquests. Many of the Sufis came from Christian societies, principally from an Eastern Orthodox background, but...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge
10. Morals and Mysticism in Persian Sufism

    A History of Sufi-Futuwwat in Iran

    By Lloyd Ridgeon

    Series: Routledge Sufi Series

    Sufism is often understood to be the mystical dimension of Islam, and many works have focused on the nature of "mystical experiences" and the relationship between man and God. Yet Sufism was a human response to a wide range of contexts and circumstances; the fact that Sufis lived in society and...

    Published May 11th 2010 by Routledge