This is a chronological history of the Sufi tradition, divided in to three sections, early, middle and modern periods. The book comprises 35 independent chapters with easily identifiable themes and/or geographical threads, all written by recognised experts in the field.
The volume outlines the origins and early developments of Sufism by assessing the formative thinkers and practitioners and investigating specific pietistic themes. The middle period contains an examination of the emergence of the Sufi Orders and illustrates the diversity of the tradition. This middle period also analyses the fate of Sufism during the time of the Gunpowder Empires. Finally, the end period includes representative surveys of Sufism in several countries, both in the West and in traditional "Islamic" regions.
This comprehensive and up-to-date collection of studies provides a guide to the Sufi tradition. The Handbook is a valuable resource for students and researchers with an interest in religion, Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.
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Preface
PART ONE: THE EARLY PERIOD
- The Origins of Sufism
- al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāsibī and Spiritual Purification between Asceticism and Mysticism
- al-Junayd al-Baghdādī: Chief of the Sect
- Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī and Discussions about Intoxicated Sufism
- Al-Ghazālī: In Praise of Sufism
- ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt’s Qur’anic Vision: From Black Words to White Parchment
- Ibn ‘Arabī and the Akbarī Tradition
- Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī and his Place in the History of Sufism
- Opposition to Sufis in the Formative Period
- Narrativizing Early Mystic and Sufi Women
- Sufism and Travelling
- Sufism and Qur’ānic Ethics
- Love and Beauty in Sufism
- Sufism in Classical Persian Poetry
- Sufi Orders in the Medieval Period
- The Bektaşiyya
- The Chishtiyya
- The Qalandariyya
- The Shādhiliyya
- Sufism, Tombs and Convents
- Clothing and Investiture in Medieval Sufism
- Sufism and Christian Mysticism
- The Jewish-Sufi Encounter in the Middle Ages
- Sufism and the Hindu dharma
- Sufism and the Safavids of Iran
- Sufism and the Mughals of India
- Sufism in the Ottoman Empire
- The Qāḍīzādelis and Sufism
- Sufism in Modern Turkey
- Sufism in the UK
- Sufism and Vernacular Knowledge in Sindh
- The Egyptian Society for Spiritual and Cultural Research
- Sufism in Modern Morocco
- Sufism in Senegal
- Sufism in North America
Lloyd Ridgeon
Gavin Picken
Erik S. Ohlander
Annabel Keeler
Carole Hillenbrand
Mohammed Rustom
Jawad Qureshi
Ibrahim Gamard
Harith Ramli
Sara Abdel-Latif
Arin Salamah-Qudsi
Atif Khalil
Joseph Lumbard
Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
PART TWO: THE MIDDLE PERIOD
Lloyd Ridgeon
Riza Yildirim
Scott Kugle
Katherine Pratt Ewing and Ilona Gerbakher
Lahouari Ramzi Taleb
Thierry Zarcone
Eyad Abuali
Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh
Elisha Russ-Fishbane
Thomas Dahnhardt
Andrew Newman
Kashshaf Ghani
John J. Curry
Mustapha Sheikh
PART THREE: THE MODERN PERIOD
Kim Shively
Ron Geaves
Michel Boivin
Valerie J. Hoffman
Marta Dominguez Diaz
John Glover
Juliane Hammer
Biography
Lloyd Ridgeon is reader in Islamic Studies at Glasgow University. His main research interests include Persianate Sufism and also Iranian history and modern Iranian culture. He has published extensively on areas including javānmardī, and he is currently writing a book on how the ḥijāb has been understood by modern Iranian seminarians.