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