Sufi Lines

Author : J. Spencer Trimingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198028239

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The Sufi Orders in Islam by J. Spencer Trimingham Pdf

Sufism, the name given to Islamic mysticism, has been the subject of many studies, but the orders through which the organizational aspect of the Sufi spirit was expressed has been neglected. The Sufi Orders in Islam is one of the earliest modern examinations of the historical development of Sufism and is considered a classic work in numerous sources of Islamic studies today. Here, author J. Spencer Trimingham offers a clear and detailed account of the formation and development of the Sufi schools and orders (tariqahs) from the second century of Islam until modern times. Trimingham focuses on the practical disciplines behind the mystical aspects of Sufism which initially attracted a Western audience. He shows how Sufism developed and changed, traces its relationship to the unfolding and spread of mystical ideas, and describes in sharp detail its rituals and ceremonial practices. Finally, he assesses the influence of these Sufi orders upon Islamic society in general. John O. Voll has added a new introduction to this classic text and provides readers with an updated list of further reading. The Sufi Orders in Islam will appeal not only to those already familiar with Triminghams groundbreaking research, but also to the growing reading public of Islamic studies and mysticism.

Author : Bill Bissett
Publisher : Vancouvr [sic] : Blewointmentpress
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036408834

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Th First Sufi Line by Bill Bissett Pdf

Author : Dina Le Gall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791484258

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A Culture of Sufism by Dina Le Gall Pdf

A Culture of Sufism opens a window to a new understanding of one of the most prolific and enduring of all the Sufi brotherhoods, the Naqshbandiyya, as it spread from its birthplace in central Asia to Iran, Anatolia, Arabia, and the Balkans between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on original sources and carefully aware of the power of modern paradigms to obscure, Le Gall portrays a Naqshbandiyya that was devotionally sober yet not demysticized and rigorously orthodox without being politically activist. She argues that the establishment of this brotherhood in Ottoman society was not the product of political instrumentality. Instead the Naqshbandī dissemination is best explained in reference to a series of little-appreciated organizational and cultural modes such as proclivity to long-distance travel, independence from specialized Sufi institutions, linguistic adaptability, commitment to writing and copying, and the practice of bequeathing spiritual authority to non-kin.

Author : Stephane A. Dudolgnon,Komatsu Hisao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136888786

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Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia by Stephane A. Dudolgnon,Komatsu Hisao Pdf

First Published in 2001. This volume contains the proceedings of the international colloquium held by the IAS Project in October 1999. These papers deal with the modem and contemporary history of Central Eurasia, for a comprehensive reflection on various phenomena that led to a political valuation of Islam under non-Muslim domination, whether Russian or Chinese, since the beginning of the 18th century. A comparative approach to the current situations in the Russian Federation and the newly independent states of Central Asia has allowed us to study the various modes of the political instrumentalization of Islam, by both political power and opposition, in such various areas as the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan and the Volga-Urals region of Russia.

Author : Ahmad S. Dallal
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469640358

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Islam without Europe by Ahmad S. Dallal Pdf

Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal's pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being moribund, Dallal argues, the eighteenth century--prior to systematic European encounters--was one of the most fertile eras in Islamic thought. Across vast Islamic territories, Dallal charts in rich detail not only how intellectuals rethought and reorganized religious knowledge but also the reception and impact of their ideas. From the banks of the Ganges to the shores of the Atlantic, commoners and elites alike embraced the appeals of Muslim thinkers who, while preserving classical styles of learning, advocated for general participation by Muslims in the definition of Islam. Dallal also uncovers the regional origins of most reform projects, showing how ideologies were forged in particular sociopolitical contexts. Reformists' ventures were in large part successful--up until the beginnings of European colonization of the Muslim world. By the nineteenth century, the encounter with Europe changed Islamic discursive culture in significant ways into one that was largely articulated in reaction to the radical challenges of colonialism.

Author : Karakaya-Stump Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474432719

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Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia by Karakaya-Stump Ayfer Karakaya-Stump Pdf

The Kizilbash were at once key players in and the foremost victims of the Ottoman-Safavid conflict that defined the early modern Middle East. Today referred to as Alevis, they constitute the second largest faith community in modern Turkey, with smaller pockets of related groups in the Balkans. Yet several aspects of their history remain little understood or explored. This first comprehensive socio-political history of the Kizilbash/Alevi communities uses a recently surfaced corpus of sources generated within their milieu. It offers fresh answers to many questions concerning their origins and evolution from a revolutionary movement to an inward-looking religious order.

Author : Shivan Mahendrarajah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108839693

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The Saint of Jam by Shivan Mahendrarajah Pdf

Explores the emergence, florescence, decay, and rejuvenation of the Sunni saint cult and shrine-complex of Shaykh al-Islam Ahmad-i Jam over nine-hundred years.

Author : Kim Searcy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004191075

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The Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist State by Kim Searcy Pdf

This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used symbols, ceremony and ritual to articulate their power, authority and legitimacy first within the context of resistance to the imperial Turco-Egyptian forces, and then within the context of establishing an Islamic state.

Author : Alija Izetbegovi'c
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313074660

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Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Alija Izetbegovi'c Pdf

As the leading Muslim political spokesman and intellectual, Izetbegovi'c was imprisoned by the Yugoslavian government in 1983 for a 14-year sentence. During the six years he served in prison, Izetbegovi'c wrote notes on life issues, religion and culture, and politics and political philosophy. These reflections were smuggled out of prison and edited for publication along with a selection of letters from his family. After describing prison life, Izetbegovi'c has organized his reflections into sections. From his first note When I lose the reasons to live, I shall die, Izetbegovi'c provides a provocative collection of reflections that will interest scholars and researchers of contemporary Balkans, European Islam, and life during the last days of Communist Yugoslavia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004325968

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Western Esotericism in Scandinavia by Anonim Pdf

Western Esotericism in Scandinavia is a detailed encyclopaedic work covering all major esoteric currents in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

Author : Ignaz Goldziher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 0691100993

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Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law by Ignaz Goldziher Pdf

Translation of six lectures on the following aspects of Muslim religion and culture: Mohammed and the Qur'an; the holy law of Islam; the principles of Muslim theology; asceticism and Sufism; Islamic sects; and developments in modern times.

Author : Nasima Selim
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805392361

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Breathing Hearts by Nasima Selim Pdf

Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004349841

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The Piety of Learning: Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth by Anonim Pdf

This volume analyzes Islamic teaching philosophies, as well as Sufi networks and practices, since the 18th century in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Europe. One section presents very personal European encounters with Islam.

Author : Deepshikha Shahi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786613868

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Sufism by Deepshikha Shahi Pdf

In an effort to attain a ‘global’ character, the contemporary academic discipline of International Relations (IR) increasingly seeks to surpass its Eurocentric limits, thereby opening up pathways to incorporate non-Eurocentric worldviews. Lately, many of the non-Eurocentric worldviews have emerged which either engender a ‘derivative’ discourse of the same Eurocentric IR theories, or construct an ‘exceptionalist’ discourse which is particularly applicable to the narrow experiential realities of a native time-space zone: as such, they fall short of the ambition to produce a genuinely ‘non-derivative’ and ‘non-exceptionalist’ Global IR theory. Against this backdrop, Sufism: A Theoretical Intervention in Global International Relations performs a multidisciplinary research to explore how ‘Sufism’ – as an established non-Western philosophy with a remarkable temporal-spatial spread across the globe – facilitates a creative intervention in the theoretical understanding of Global IR.

Author : Alija Izetbegovic
Publisher : Claritas Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781905837694

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Notes from Prison Pack by Alija Izetbegovic Pdf

This boxset includes the following titles by Alija Izetbegovic, alongside Alija Izetbegovic: A Short Biography by Shairf H. Banna: On Life, People and Freedom On Religion and Morality Political Musings Islam Between East and West: New Reflections On Communism and Nazism Islam, History and Other Observations From My Children's Letters Incarcerated by the Communist regime in Yugoslavia for five arduous years, Alija Izetbegovicpenned these treasured philosophical reflections on diverse topics such as freedom, politics, history, religion and morality. Confined to his cell in Foča Prison, Sarajevo, he filled thirteen notebooks with these wonderful pearls of wisdom and managed to smuggle them out with the help of a fellow inmate. These notes are now presented for the first time as part of a series. Notes from Prison is Alija Izetbegovic’s spiritual escape to freedom and makes for an outstandingly unique read, both in form and content.