The Nature of Sufism

An Ontological Reading of the Mystical in Islam
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-07905-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

Reihe: Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series

This book explores how Sufis approach their faith as Muslims, upholding an Islamic worldview, but going about making sense of their religion through the world in which they exist, often in unexpected ways. Using a phenomenological approach, the book examines Sufism as lived experience within the Muslim lifeworld, focusing on the Muslim experience of Islamic history. It draws on selected case studies ranging from classic Sufism to Sufism in the contemporary era mainly taken from biographical and hagiographical data, manuscript texts, and treatises. In this way, it provides a revisionist approach to theories and methods on Sufism, and, more broadly, the category of mysticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milani, Milad

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 ‘Introduction’ to Sufism 2 The Journey Through Islam: a phenomenological analysis of the Sufi tariqa and the experience of the ‘master’ 3 ‘Being Sufi’ 4 Jesus as Sign 5 Absent Christ, present God 6 Break with the past: transgressing restrictions of the category and scholarship on ‘mysticism’ 7 Conclusion: The ontological question for Sufism

Über Autor(innen)

Milad Milani is a Senior Lecturer in religious studies at Western Sydney University.