Sufism East and West

Mystical Islam and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Modern World
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39391-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Studies on Sufism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malik, Jamal

Zarrabi-Zadeh, Saeed

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamische Gruppen: Sufis
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Notes on Transliteration

List of Illustrations

Introduction, Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh

Part One: 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 Two: 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 Three: 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

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).