The Nature of Sufism

An Ontological Reading of the Mystical in Islam

Milad Milani (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138328334 (ISBN)

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This book explores how Sufis approach their faith as Muslims, upholding an Islamic worldview, but going about making sense of their religion through the world in which they exist, often in unexpected ways. Using a phenomenological approach, the book examines Sufism as lived experience within the Muslim lifeworld, focusing on the Muslim experience of Islamic history. It draws on selected case studies ranging from classic Sufism to Sufism in the contemporary era mainly taken from biographical and hagiographical data, manuscript texts, and treatises. In this way, it provides a revisionist approach to theories and methods on Sufism, and, more broadly, the category of mysticism.

Milad Milani is a Senior Lecturer in religious studies at Western Sydney University.

1 ‘Introduction’ to Sufism 2 The Journey Through Islam: a phenomenological analysis of the Sufi tariqa and the experience of the ‘master’ 3 ‘Being Sufi’ 4 Jesus as Sign 5 Absent Christ, present God 6 Break with the past: transgressing restrictions of the category and scholarship on ‘mysticism’ 7 Conclusion: The ontological question for Sufism

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
Zusatzinfo	5 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781138328334 / 9781138328334
Zustand	Neuware