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Routledge Sufi Series


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The Routledge Sufi Series provides short introductions to a variety of facets of the subject, which are accessible both to the general reader and the student and scholar in the field. Each book will be either a synthesis of existing knowledge or a distinct contribution to, and extension of, knowledge of the particular topic. The two major underlying principles of the Series are sound scholarship and readability.

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Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb’s Lament of the Nightingale and Ṭarīqa-yi Khāliṣ Muḥammadiyya

Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India: Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb’s Lament of the Nightingale and Ṭarīqa-yi Khāliṣ Muḥammadiyya

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By Neda Saghaee
May 27, 2024

Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India focuses on one particular treasure from surviving Persian manuscripts in India, Nāla-yi ʿAndalīb, written by Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb (d. 1759), a Naqshbandī Mujaddidī mystical thinker. It explores the convergence and interrelation of the text with its context to ...

Sufi Women and Mystics Models of Sanctity, Erudition, and Political Leadership

Sufi Women and Mystics: Models of Sanctity, Erudition, and Political Leadership

1st Edition

By Minlib Dallh
November 07, 2023

This book focuses on women’s important contribution to Sufism by analyzing the lives and seminal contributions of six mystic Sufi women to Islamic spirituality. To help reverse the sidelining of Sufi women in the recorded academic literature, the author has selected a representative sample of ...

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus Religion, Magic, and the Eighteenth-Century Networks of the Holy

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus: Religion, Magic, and the Eighteenth-Century Networks of the Holy

1st Edition

By Nikola Pantić
September 29, 2023

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study focuses on historical beliefs in baraka, which religious authorities often interpreted as Allah’s grace, and the alleged Sufi-ulamaic role in distributing ...

Love in Sufi Literature Ibn 'Ajiba's Understanding of the Divine Word

Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn 'Ajiba's Understanding of the Divine Word

1st Edition

By Omneya Ayad
September 27, 2023

Focused on Aḥmad Ibn ‘Ajība – an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qur’ānic exegesis – this book engages critically with his theory of divine love to elucidate his impact on the wider field of Qur’ānic scholarship. The principal source of analysis is Ibn...

State and Sufism in Iraq Building a “Moderate Islam” Under Saddam Husayn

State and Sufism in Iraq: Building a “Moderate Islam” Under Saddam Husayn

1st Edition

By David Jordan
September 25, 2023

State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the Iraqi Baʿth regime’s (r. 1968–2003) entanglement with Sufis and of Sunnī Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman period until 2003 and beyond. For far too long, the secular and authoritarian Baʿth regime has been reduced to the ...

Sufism in Morocco's Religious Politics Refractions of Piety and Iḥsān

Sufism in Morocco's Religious Politics: Refractions of Piety and Iḥsān

1st Edition

By John C. Thibdeau
July 25, 2023

This book outlines the role of Sufism in Moroccan politics in the twenty-first century through a comparative study of contemporary Sufi organizations. The author begins his analysis by highlighting the strategies employed by the Moroccan state over the past twenty years, aimed at regulating and ...

Nur Baba A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul

Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul

1st Edition

By Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, M. Brett Wilson (Editor and Translator)
June 23, 2023

This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba – a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu – offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul. Inspired by Karaosmanoğlu’s personal experiences with ...

Walāya in the Formative Period of Shi'ism and Sufism A Comparative Analysis

Walāya in the Formative Period of Shi'ism and Sufism: A Comparative Analysis

1st Edition

By Shayesteh Ghofrani
March 31, 2023

Focused on Shi’ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walāya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide range of relationships with other theological ideas, chiefly in relation to the notion of authority. The book offers a ...

Sufism and the Perfect Human From Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī

Sufism and the Perfect Human: From Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī

1st Edition

By Fitzroy Morrissey
February 21, 2020

Studying the history of the notion of the ‘Perfect Human’ (al-insān al-kāmil), this book investigates a key idea in the history of Sufism. First discussed by Ibn ‘Arabī and later treated in greater depth by al-Jīlī, the idea left its mark on later Islamic mystical, metaphysical, and political ...

Perspectives on Early Islamic Mysticism The World of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and his Contemporaries

Perspectives on Early Islamic Mysticism: The World of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and his Contemporaries

1st Edition

By Sara Sviri
November 07, 2019

This monograph explores the original literary produce of Muslim mystics during the eighth–tenth centuries, with special attention to ninth-century mystics, such as al-Tustarī, al-Muḥāsibī, al-Kharrāz, al-Junayd and, in particular, al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī. Unlike other studies dealing with the ...

Sufism in Ottoman Egypt Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Sufism in Ottoman Egypt: Circulation, Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

1st Edition

By Rachida Chih
April 23, 2019

This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the cultural, socio-economic and political backdrop against which Sufism gained prominence, it looks at its influence in both the institutions for religious learning and popular...

Awhad al-Dīn Kirmānī and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze

Awhad al-Dīn Kirmānī and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze

1st Edition

By Lloyd Ridgeon
November 30, 2017

Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī (d. 1238) was one of the greatest and most colourful Persian Sufis of the medieval period; he was celebrated in his own lifetime by a large number of like-minded followers and other Sufi masters. And yet his form of Sufism was the subject of much discussion within the Islamic ...

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