Sufism East and West

Mystical Islam and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Modern World

Jamal Malik, Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-39391-2 (ISBN)

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Sufism East and West, edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, investigates the redirection and dynamics of Sufism in the modern era, specifically from the perspective of cross-cultural exchange in the resonance spaces of “East” and “West.”

In Sufism East and West, the contributors investigate the redirection and dynamics of Sufism in the modern era, specifically from the perspective of global cross-cultural exchange. Edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, the book explores the role of mystical Islam in the complex interchange and fluidity in the resonance spaces of “East” and “West.”

The volume challenges the enduring Orientalist binary coding of East-versus-West and argues instead for a more mutual process of cultural plaiting and shared tradition. By highlighting amendments, adaptations and expansions of Sufi semantics during the last centuries, it also questions the persistent perception of Sufism in its post-classical epoch as a corrupt imitation of the legacy of the great Sufis of the past.

Jamal Malik, Ph.D. (1989), University of Heidelberg, is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt. He has published widely on Islamic education, religious pluralism, Sufism, and the mobilization of religion, including Islam in South Asia (Brill 2008 and Orient Blackswan 2012). Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, Ph.D. (2013), University of Erfurt, is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at that university. He has published on Sufism, comparative mysticism, religion and modernity, and Persian literature, including Practical Mysticism in Islam and Christianity (Routledge, 2016).

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Transliteration

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh

Part 1: Construction and Reorientation of Sufism in the Modern World

1 The Dabistan and Orientalist Views of Sufism

Carl W. Ernst

2 Definitions of Sufism as a Meeting Place of Eastern and Western “Creative Imaginations”

Alexander Knysh

3 Sufi Amnesia in Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Tahdhib al-Akhlaq

Jamal Malik

4 Discussing the Sufism of the Early Modern Period: A New Historiographical Outlook on the Tariqa Muhammadiyya

Rachida Chih

Part 2: Interactions between Sufism and Western Culture

5 Sufism and the Gurdjieff Movement: Multiple Itineraries of Interaction

Mark Sedgwick

6 Beyond West Meets East: Space and Simultaneity in Post-Millennial Western Sufi Autobiographical Writings

Marcia Hermansen

7 Sufism in the Modern West: a Taxonomy of Typologies and the Category of “Dynamic Integrejectionism”

Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh

Part 3: Sufism and the Representation of Islam

8 Between Two or Three Worlds: Reversion to Islam, Beur Culture and Western Sufism in the Tariqa Budshishiyya

Marta Dominguez Diaz

9 Between Religiosity, Cultural Heritage and Politics: Sufi-Oriented Interests in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina

Catharina Raudvere

10 Transmitting and Transforming Traditions: Salman Ahmad and Sufi Rock

Ali S. Asani

Afterword

Bruce B. Lawrence

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.04.2019
Reihe/Serie	Studies on Sufism ; 2
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	628 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-39391-9 / 9004393919
ISBN-13	978-90-04-39391-2 / 9789004393912
Zustand	Neuware