Sufism today heritage and tradition in the global community (I.B. Tauris, 2009)
Based on workshop hosted by University of Copenhagen and Lund University
Translocal mobility and traditional authority : Sufi practices and discourses as facets of everyday Muslim life / Catharina Raudvere and Leif Stenberg -- The politics of Sufism : is there one? / Paul L. Heck -- Transnationalising personal and religious identities : Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti's adaptation of E. Xanî's 'Mem û Zin' / Andreas Christmann -- Between home and home : Conceptions of Sufi heritage in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Swedish Bosniak diaspora / Catharina Raudvere -- Continuity and transformation in a Naqshbandi tariqa in Britain : the changing relationship between mazar (shrine) and dar-al-ulum (seminary) revisited / Ron Geaves -- A translocal Sufi movement : developments among Naqshbandi-Haqqani in London / Simon Stjernholm -- One foot rooted in Islam, the other foot circling the world : tradition and engagement in a Turkish Sufi cemaat / Heiko Henkel -- Creativity and stability in the making of Sufi tradition : the Tariqa Qadiriyya in Aleppo, Syria / Paulo G. Pinto -- Sacred spaces, rituals and practices : the mazars of Saiyid Pir Waris Shah and Sha 'Abdu'l Latif Bhitai / Uzma Rehman -- Encountering Sufism on the Web : two Halveti-Jerrahi paths and their missions in the USA / Margaret J. Rausch -- Sufism in the USA : creolisation, hybridisation, syncretisation? / Oluf Schönbeck -- Strategies for concord : the transformation of Tariqa Burhaniya in the European environment / Søren Christian Lassen -- Sufism contextualised : the Mevlevi tradition in Germany / Gritt Klinkhammer
Includes bibliographical references and index
This book offers the first sustained treatment of Sufism in the context of modern Muslim communities. It is also innovative, in that it broadens the purview of the study of Sufism to look at the subject right across international boundaries, from Canada to Brazil, and from Denmark to the UK and USA. Subjects discussed include: the politics of Sufism, the remaking of Turkish Sufism, tradition and cultural creativity among Syrian Sufi communities, the globalization of Sufi networks, and their transplantation in America, Iranian Sufism in London, and Naqshbandi Sufism in Sweden. In its thorough examination of how Sufi rituals, traditions and theologies have been adapted by late-modern religiosity, this volume will make indispensable reading for all scholars and students of modern Islam