Sufism: A New History Of Islamic Mysticism - 9780691139098

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?

• | Author: Alexander D. Knysh
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 31, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 408 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/RELIGION
• | ISBN-10: 0691139091
• | ISBN-13: 9780691139098