For centuries Sufism - Islamic mysticism - held a major place in Islamic spirituality, intellectual life, and popular religion. While many twentieth-century observers have commented on Sufism's decline, and modernists and fundamentalists alike have criticized the movement, few scholars have ana...

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Main Author:	Hoffman, Valerie J. 1954- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia, SC <<The>> Univ. of South Carolina Press 1995
Series:	Studies in comparative religion
Subjects:	Soefisme Soufisme - Égypte - 20e siècle Sufism > Egypt Sufismus Islam Ägypten
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	For centuries Sufism - Islamic mysticism - held a major place in Islamic spirituality, intellectual life, and popular religion. While many twentieth-century observers have commented on Sufism's decline, and modernists and fundamentalists alike have criticized the movement, few scholars have analyzed present-day Egyptian Sufism as a system in its own right rather than as a degradation of the classical ideal. Drawing on detailed fieldwork and on textual analysis of a variety of little-known recent and medieval sources, Valerie J. Hoffman presents Sufism as it exists in Egypt today, in the vivid experiences of its adherents, from humble housewives to famous mystics and saints. With an array of conclusions that overturn widely held beliefs about modern Sufis, Hoffman argues that the apparent assimilation of Egyptian Sufism masks a thriving movement hidden from the Western world.
Item Description:	Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Physical Description:	XIX, 461 S. Ill.
ISBN:	1570030553 9781570038495