Saints and Sons

The Making and Remaking of the Rashīdi Aḥmadi Sufi Order, 1799-2000
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-14013-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 97, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

This first history of the Rashidi Ahmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the order, and the limiting effect on even the greatest shaykhs of their followers’ expectations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sedgwick, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamische Gruppen: Sufis
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Mark J. Sedgwick, Ph.D. (1999) in History, University of Bergen, is Associate Professor of History at the American University in Cairo. He has published extensively on Sufism and New Religious Movements, including Sufism: The Essentials (AUC Press, 2000) and Against the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2004)