Sufis and Anti-Sufis The Defence, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World

Name: Sufis and Anti-Sufis The Defence, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780700710607

ISBN-10: 0700710604

ISBN-13: 9780700710607

Edition: 1999

Authors: Elisabeth Sirriyeh

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Sirriyeh seeks to redress the neglect of Sufism by assigning it a central place in the broader history of Islam in the world and by examining how changing understandings of Sufism's role have affected Muslims of all shades of opinion.

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/21/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations



Sufis and Their Critics Before the Impact of Europe


The Mood of Decline


Sufi Reformers: Shah Wali Allah and Ahmad b. Idris


The Spirit of Mass Reform Within the Tariqas


Rejection of the Tariqas: the Arabian Wahhabis



The Challenge of European Anti-Sufism


The Lesser Jihad


The Greater Jihad and Worldly Constraints



Traditional Sufism or a Religion of Progress?


Sufism and European Thought in the Nineteenth Century


Early Islamic Modernism and Sufism


Sufi Orders and the Ottoman Version of Pan-Islamic Regeneration



The Sufism and Anti-Sufism of the Salafis


Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905), Sufi and Anti-Sufi


Muhammad Rashid Rida, Anti-Sufi (1865-1935)


The Salafiyya in the Arab Lands



Strengthening the Soul of the Nation


Ziya Gokalp (1876-1924)


Muhammad Iqbal (1876?-1938)



Contemporary Sufism and Anti-Sufism


Sufi Tariqas, 1950s-1960s: Decline and Continuity


The Tariqas and the Contemporary Islamic Revival


State Anti-Sufism


Radical Rethinking of the Way


Conclusion: Many Ways Towards the One


Bibliography


Index