Routledge Handbook on Sufism
Lloyd Ridgeon
Hardback
9781138040120
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.
PART ONE: THE EARLY PERIOD
The Origins of Sufism
Lloyd Ridgeon
al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāsibī and Spiritual Purification between Asceticism and Mysticism
Gavin Picken
al-Junayd al-Baghdādī: Chief of the Sect
Erik S. Ohlander
Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī and Discussions about Intoxicated Sufism
Annabel Keeler
Al-Ghazālī: In Praise of Sufism
Carole Hillenbrand
‘Ayn al-Quḍāt’s Qur’anic Vision: From Black Words to White Parchment
Mohammed Rustom
Ibn ‘Arabī and the Akbarī Tradition
Jawad Qureshi
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī and his Place in the History of Sufism
Ibrahim Gamard
Opposition to Sufis in the Formative Period
Harith Ramli
Narrativizing Early Mystic and Sufi Women
Sara Abdel-Latif
Sufism and Travelling
Arin Salamah-Qudsi
Sufism and Qur’ānic Ethics
Atif Khalil
Love and Beauty in Sufism
Joseph Lumbard
Sufism in Classical Persian Poetry
Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
PART TWO: THE MIDDLE PERIOD
Sufi Orders in the Medieval Period
Lloyd Ridgeon
The Bektaşiyya
Riza Yildirim
The Chishtiyya
Scott Kugle
The Qalandariyya
Katherine Pratt Ewing and Ilona Gerbakher
The Shādhiliyya
Lahouari Ramzi Taleb
Sufism, Tombs and Convents
Thierry Zarcone
Clothing and Investiture in Medieval Sufism
Eyad Abuali
Sufism and Christian Mysticism
Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh
The Jewish-Sufi Encounter in the Middle Ages
Elisha Russ-Fishbane
Sufism and the Hindu dharma
Thomas Dahnhardt
Sufism and the Safavids of Iran
Andrew Newman
Sufism and the Mughals of India
Kashshaf Ghani
Sufism in the Ottoman Empire
John J. Curry
The Qāḍīzādelis and Sufism
Mustapha Sheikh
PART THREE: THE MODERN PERIOD
Sufism in Modern Turkey
Kim Shively
Sufism in the UK
Ron Geaves
Sufism and Vernacular Knowledge in Sindh
Michel Boivin
The Egyptian Society for Spiritual and Cultural Research
Valerie J. Hoffman
Sufism in Modern Morocco
Marta Dominguez Diaz
Sufism in Senegal
John Glover
Sufism in North America
Juliane Hammer