Sufism : the formative period
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Sufism : the formative period
(The new Edinburgh Islamic surveys)
Edinburgh University Press, c2007
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-193) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is a comprehensive historical overview of the formative period of Sufism, the major mystical tradition in Islam, from the ninth to the twelfth century CE. Based on a fresh reading of the primary sources and integrating the findings of recent scholarship on the subject, the author presents a unified narrative of Sufism's historical development within an innovative analytical framework. Karamustafa gives a new account of the emergence of mystical currents in Islam during the ninth century and traces the rapid spread of Iraq-based Sufism to other regions of the Islamic world and its fusion with indigenous mystical movements elsewhere, most notably the Malr cultural context
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Sufis of Baghdad Renunciants, the inward turn and the term
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