Sufism The Formative Period

Name: Sufism The Formative Period
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ISBN: 9780520252691

ISBN-10: 0520252691

ISBN-13: 9780520252691

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ahmet T. Karamustafa

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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. Ahmet T. Karamustafa bases his study on a fresh reading of the primary sources and, by integrating the findings of recent scholarship on the subject, presents a unified narrative of Sufism's historical development. His innovative analytical framework reveals 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. The book also describes Sufism's fusion with indigenous mystical movements elsewhere and extensively analyses the…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748




The Sufis of Baghdad


Renunciants, the inward turn and the term sufi


Prominent Sufis of Baghdad


Major chracteristics of the Sufis of Baghdad



Mystics outside Baghdad


Lower Iraq : Sahl al-Tustari


Iran and Central Asia



The spread of Baghdad Sufism


Western Iran and Arabia


Khurasan and Transoxania


Mystics in al-Andalus?



Specialised Sufi literature


Sufism among traditionalists


Sufism in the bosom fiqh and kalam



Formation of communities


The training master and Sufi lineages


The master as patron and the cult of saints



Sainthood triumphant


Social spread and political influence


Antinomians and nonconformists