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Varieties of American Sufism

Author : Elliott Bazzano
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438477929
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of American Sufism written by Elliott Bazzano and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, Varieties of American Sufism immerses the reader in diverse expressions of contemporary Sufi religiosity in the United States. It spans more than a century of political, cultural, and embodied relationships with Islam and Muslims. American encounters with mystical Islam were initiated by a romantic quest for Oriental wisdom, flourished in the embrace of Eastern teachings during the countercultural era of New Age religion, were concretized due to late twentieth-century possibilities of travel and immigration to and from Muslim societies, and are now diffused through an explosion of cyber religion in an age of globalization. This collection of in-depth, participant-observation-based studies challenges expectations of uniformity and continuity while provoking stimulating reflection on a range of issues relevant to contemporary Islamic Studies, American religions, multireligious belonging, and new religious movements.

Sufism for Non-Sufis?

Author : Sherman A. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199873682
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Sufism for Non-Sufis? written by Sherman A. Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherman Jackson offers a translation and analysis of Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus, a work on spiritual education steeped in the classical Sufi tradition, yet directed to those who have no affiliation with Sufism in any institutionalized form. Written in classical aphoristic style, the text is a treasure trove of spiritual wisdom and self-refinement, free of all of the usual barriers between Sufism and the common believer.

Living Sufism in North America

Author : William Rory Dickson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 143845757X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Living Sufism in North America written by William Rory Dickson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an overview of Sufism in North America. In this book, William Rory Dickson explores Sufism as a developing tradition in North America, one that exists in diverse and beguiling forms. Sufisms broad-minded traditions of philosophy, poetry, and spiritual practice infused Islamic civilization for centuries and drew the attention of interested Westerners. By the early twentieth century, Sufism was being practiced in North America. Todays North American Sufism can appear either explicitly Islamic or seemingly devoid of Islamic religiosity. Dickson provides indispensable background on Sufisms relation to Islamic orthodoxy and to Western esoteric traditions, and its historical development in North America. The book goes on to chart the directions that North American Sufism is currently taking, directions largely chosen by Sufi leaders. The views of ten North American Sufi leaders are explored in depth and their perspectives on Islam, authority, gender, and tradition are put in conversation with one another. A more detailed picture of North American Sufism emerges, challenging previous scholarly classifications of Sufi groups, and highlighting Sufisms fluidity, diversity, and dynamism. Living Sufism in North America is the first book of its kind to bridge the gap between Sufi studies and the study of North American contemporary religious movements. As such, it is a comprehensive, pioneering work of potential interest to a wide array of scholars in the field of contemporary religion. Patrick Laude, author of Pathways to an Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin, Guenon, and Schuon

Sufism in America

Author : Julianne Hazen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781498533867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Sufism in America written by Julianne Hazen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the living tradition of mystical Islam by focusing on the Alami Tariqa in Waterport, New York. It explores how this order has acculturated to the American setting, why individuals are drawn to the tariqa, and what it means to pursue spiritual goals in a modern, Western society.

Varieties of American Sufism

Author : Elliott Bazzano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781438477909
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of American Sufism written by Elliott Bazzano and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Marcia Hermansen -- The Message in Our Time: Changing Faces and Identities of the Inayati Order in America / Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond -- The Golden Sufi Center: A Non-Islamic Branch of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya / William Rory Dickson -- The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship: Diverse Identities and Negotiated Spaces / Merin Shobhana Xavier -- A Shadhiliyya Sufi Order in America: Traditional Islam Meets American Hippies / Elliott Bazzano -- The Mevlevi Order of America / Simon Sorgenfrei -- From the Balkans to America: The Alami Tariqa in Upstate New York / Julianne Hazen -- 'There is an 'I' deeper than me': The Ansari Qadiri Rifa'i Tariqa and Transcendence in America / Melinda Krokus -- When the Divine Flood Reached New York: The Tijani Sufi Order among Black American Muslims in New York City / Rasul Miller -- Contributors -- Index.

Sufism

Author : Mark J. Sedgwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774248236
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Sufism written by Mark J. Sedgwick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholar with long experience of Sufism in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe succinctly presents the essentials of Sufism and shows how Sufis live and worship, and why.

Sufism in Europe and North America

Author : David Westerlund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134342063
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Sufism in Europe and North America written by David Westerlund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses mainly on issues of inculturation or contextualization of Sufism in the West.

Historical Dictionary of Sufism

Author : John Renard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810879743
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sufism written by John Renard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most broadly accepted explanation of Sufism is the etymological derivation of the term from the Arabic for “wool,” ṣūf, associating practitioners with a preference for poor, rough clothing. This explanation clearly identifies Sufism with ascetical practice and the importance of manifesting spiritual poverty through material poverty. In fact, some of the earliest “Western” descriptions of individuals now widely associated with the larger phenomenon of Sufism identified them with the Arabic term faqīr, mendicant, or its most common Persian equivalent, darwīsh. Sufism, as presented here embraces a host of features including the ritual, institutional, psychological, hermeneutical, artistic, literary, ethical, and epistemological. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Sufism contains a chronology, an introduction, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, major historical figures and movements, practices, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sufism.

Before Sufism

Author : Christopher Melchert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311061796X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Before Sufism written by Christopher Melchert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Melchert proposes to historicize Islamic renunciant piety (zuhd). As the conquest period wound down in the early eighth century c.e., renunciants set out to maintain the contempt of worldly comfort and loyalty to a greater cause that had characterized the community of Muslims in the seventh century. Instead of reckless endangerment on the battlefield, they cultivated intense fear of the Last Judgement to come. They spent nights weeping, reciting the Qur’an, and performing supererogatory ritual prayers. They stressed other-worldliness to the extent of minimizing good works in this world. Then the decline of tribute from the conquered peoples and conversion to Islam made it increasingly unfeasible for most Muslims to keep up any such régime. Professional differentiation also provoked increasing criticism of austerity. Finally, in the later ninth century, a form of Sufism emerged that would accommodate those willing and able to spend most of their time on religious devotions, those willing and able to spend their time on other religious pursuits such as law and hadith, and those unwilling or unable to do either.

A Culture of Sufism

Author : Dina Le Gall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484254
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book A Culture of Sufism written by Dina Le Gall and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Western Sufism

Author : Mark Sedgwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199977658
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Western Sufism written by Mark Sedgwick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Sufism is sometimes dismissed as a relatively recent "new age" phenomenon, but in this book Mark Sedgwick argues that it has deep roots, both in the Muslim world and in the West. In fact, although the first significant Western Sufi organization was not established until 1915, the first Western discussion of Sufism was printed in 1480, and Western interest in Sufi thought goes back to the thirteenth century. Sedgwick starts with the earliest origins of Western Sufism in late antique Neoplatonism and early Arab philosophy, and traces later origins in repeated intercultural transfers from the Muslim world to the West, in the thought of the European Renaissance and Enlightenment, and in the intellectual and religious ferment of the nineteenth century. He then follows the development of organized Sufism in the West from 1915 until 1968, the year in which the first Western Sufi order based on purely Islamic models was founded. Western Sufism shows the influence of these origins, of thought both familiar and less familiar: Neoplatonic emanationism, perennialism, pantheism, universalism, and esotericism. Western Sufism is the product not of the new age but of Islam, the ancient world, and centuries of Western religious and intellectual history. Using sources from antiquity to the internet, Sedgwick demonstrates that the phenomenon of Western Sufism draws on centuries of intercultural transfers and is part of a long-established relationship between Western thought and Islam.

Sufism and American Literary Masters

Author : Mehdi Aminrazavi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143845354X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Sufism and American Literary Masters written by Mehdi Aminrazavi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the rich, but generally unknown, influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. The translation of Persian poets such as Hafiz and Sa'di into English and the ongoing popularity of Omar Khayyam offered intriguing new spiritual perspectives to some of the major American literary figures. As editor Mehdi Aminrazavi notes, these Sufi influences have often been subsumed into a notion of "Eastern," chiefly Indian, thought and not acknowledged as having Islamic roots. This work pays considerable attention to two giants of American literature, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, who found much inspiration from the Sufi ideas they encountered. Other canonical figures are also discussed, including Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, along with literary contemporaries who are lesser known today, such as Paschal Beverly Randolph, Thomas Lake Harris, and Lawrence Oliphant.

Sufi Talks

Author : Robert Frager
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 083560893X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Sufi Talks written by Robert Frager and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of psychology and religious studies who became a sheikh in 1985 describes the teachings of the Sufi master Muzaffer Efendi and shares the universal wisdom and lessons for enhancing one's interpersonal relationships through connecting with God. Original.

Sufis, Salafis and Islamists

Author : Sadek Hamid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857727109
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Sufis, Salafis and Islamists written by Sadek Hamid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Muslim activism has evolved constantly in recent decades. What have been its main groups and how do their leaders compete to attract followers? Which social and religious ideas from abroad are most influential? In this groundbreaking study, Sadek Hamid traces the evolution of Sufi, Salafi and Islamist activist groups in Britain, including The Young Muslims UK, Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Salafi JIMAS organisation and Traditional Islam Network. With reference to second-generation British Muslims especially, he explains how these groups gain and lose support, embrace and reject foreign ideologies, and succeed and fail to provide youth with compelling models of British Muslim identity. Analyzing historical and firsthand community research, Hamid gives a compelling account of the complexity that underlies reductionist media narratives of Islamic activism in Britain.

Cyber Sufis

Author : Robert Rozehnal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786075350
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Cyber Sufis written by Robert Rozehnal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America today, online spaces serve as critical alternatives for tech-savvy Muslims seeking a place to root their faith, forge religious identity, and build communities. With a particular focus on the Inayati Order, a branch of the oldest Sufi community in the West, Robert Rozehnal explores the online revolution in internal communication, spiritual pedagogy, and public outreach – and looks ahead to the future of digital Islam in the age of Web 3.0.

Sufism

Author : Nile Green
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405157658
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Sufism written by Nile Green and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their beginnings in the ninth century, the shrines, brotherhoods and doctrines of the Sufis held vast influence in almost every corner of the Muslim world. Offering the first truly global account of the history of Sufism, this illuminating book traces the gradual spread and influence of Sufi Islam through the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and ultimately into Europe and the United States. An ideal introduction to Sufism, requiring no background knowledge of Islamic history or thought Offers the first history of Sufism as a global phenomenon, exploring its movement and adaptation from the Middle East, through Asia and Africa, to Europe and the United States of America Covers the entire historical period of Sufism, from its ninth century origins to the end of the twentieth century Devotes equal coverage to the political, cultural, and social dimensions of Sufism as it does to its theology and ritual Dismantles the stereotypes of Sufis as otherworldly 'mystics', by anchoring Sufi Muslims in the real lives of their communities Features the most up-to-date research on Sufism available

Between East and West

Author : Müge Galin
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791433836
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Between East and West written by Müge Galin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work. Impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.