Sufism in Western Contexts

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-38983-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 154/3, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 764 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East / Handbook of Sufi Studies

Sufism in Western Contexts explores both historical trajectories and multiple contemporary manifestations of Islamic mystical movements, ideas, and practices in diverse European, North and South American countries, as well as in Australia – all traditionally non-Muslim regions of the “global West”. From early French and British colonial administrators who admired Persian poetry to nineteenth-century American transcendentalists, followed by South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrant Sufi guides and their movements, expansive and many-faceted expressions of Sufism such as its role in Western esotericism, female whirling dervishes and Rumi cafes, and new articulations in cyberspace, are traced and analyzed by international experts in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hermansen, Marcia K

Zarrabi-Zadeh, Saeed

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Sufism in Western Contexts

Marcia K. Hermansen and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh

Part 1: History, Reception, and Modes of Practice

1 Analytic Essay: The Idea of Sufism in the West

Gregory A. Lipton and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh

2 Sufism and Western Esotericism

Patrick D. Bowen

3 Sufism and New Religious Movements

Olav Hammer

4 Western Sufi Institutions and Practices

Merin Shobhana Xavier

5 Cyber Sufism in the Global West

Robert Rozehnal

Part 2: Sufism in Regional Contexts

6 Analytic Essay: Sufism in Western Regional Settings

Jamal Malik

7 Sufism in Britain

Ron Geaves, Ayesha Khan and Amina Khatun

8 Sufism in Latin Europe (France, Spain, Italy)

Francesco Piraino and Antonio de Diego González

9 Sufism in German-Speaking Europe (Germany, Austria, German-Speaking Switzerland)

Gritt Klinkhammer and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh

10 Sufism in the Benelux Countries (Netherlands and Belgium)

M. Amer Morgahi

11 Sufism in Scandinavia

Simon Stjernholm

12 Sufism in North America

William Rory Dickson

13 Sufism in Latin America

Mark Sedgwick

14 Sufism in Oceania (Australia and New Zealand)

Milad Milani

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marcia K. Hermansen is Professor of Theology and Director of the Islamic World Studies program at Loyola University Chicago. Her publications on Sufism include Varieties of American Sufism (2021) as well as many studies of South Asian Sufism and on Shah Wali Allah of Delhi.

Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh is a habilitated lecturer of Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His publications on Sufism and comparative mysticism include Practical Mysticism in Islam and Christianity (Routledge, 2016) and Sufism East and West (Brill, 2019; co-edited with Jamal Malik).