1st Edition
Christian Perspectives on Sufism Mystics, Monks and Mosques
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface
To Begin With: An Introduction to Christian Perspectives on Sufism
Chapter 1 What is Mysticism?
Chapter 2 Monks, Magi and Mosques: Religion on the Silk Road
Chapter 3 Love and Law in Islam and Christianity
Chapter 4 The Origins and Development of Sufism
Chapter 5 The Mystical Poetry of Rumi and Iqbal
Chapter 6 Theism and Pantheism in Rumi
Chapter 7 Rumi and Freedom
Chapter 8 Rumi and Mystical Experience
Chapter 9 God and Creation in Rumi
Chapter 10 The Thought of ‘Allama Iqbal
Chapter 11 The Rise of Muslim Modernism and Revivalism
Chapter 12 The Renewal of Christian Thought in the Modern Middle East and South Asia
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Michael Nazir-Ali is a member of the Ordinariate in the Catholic Church and Prelate to the Holy See, a professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum), a lector at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He serves as President of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue (OXTRAD) and was Anglican Bishop of Rochester from 1994–2009. Previously, he was General Secretary of the Church Mission Society and Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan, where he has both Christian and Muslim family background. From 1999, he was a member of the House of Lords and served on the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (1997–2003), chairing its Ethics and Law Committee. He also chaired the Rochester Commission on women bishops and was President of the Network for Interfaith Relations of the Anglican Communion. Currently, he chairs the Christian Coalition for Education and the New Humanum Group. He has studied and taught at universities including Karachi, Oxford and Cambridge, and is author of several books, most recently The Mission and Ministry of the Church in England (2023).
