Sufism in Comparison: The Common Ferment of Hellenism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations and Diagrams ix
4. Transliteration and Dates xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. How and Why Sufism Came to Be 15
8. What’s in a Name? How Definitions of Sufism Have Become a Site of Polemical Partis - Pris 35
9. Discourses 62
10. Sufism in Comparison: The Common Ferment of Hellenism 124
11. Practices, Ethos, Communities, and Leaders 137
12. Sufism’s Recent Trajectories: What Lies Behind the Sufi- Salafi Confrontation? 176
13. Conclusion 231
14. Abbreviations 235
15. Notes 237
16. Bibliography 341
17. Index 371