Recognizing sufism : contemplation in the Islamic tradition
Shows that the vast majority of Sufi practice, both historically and in the contemporary world, has little or nothing to do with a esoteric transcendence but is rather focused on contemplative activity. Such practice might involve art, music, devotional shrine visitation--even politics and psycholog...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Qur'an, transformative practices and the discipline of sufism: 700-1000
- 2. Institutionalization of sufi practice
- 3. Sufi shrines: down-to-earth, day-to-day, devotional sufism for the masses
- 4. Sufi authority and politics
- 5. The relationship between the shaykh and the seeker
- 6. Sufi varieties of transformative practice: transformation of the ego-self
- 7. Two contemporary women sufi teachers