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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I: SITUATING SUFISM
6. 1 Sacred Landscapes and Universal Sufsm: From Canada to South Asia 15
7. 2 Circles of Remembrance: The Halveti-Jerrahis of Toronto 40
8. 3 Sufsm and Spiritual Ecology: The Pacifc Northwest 66
9. 4 Shaykh Ibrahim Joel Kreps: A Suf Sage of Montreal 95
10. PART II: PRACTICES AND RITUALS
11. 5 What Is “Suf” about the Montreal Suf Centre?: A Portrait of a Neighbourhood Zawiya 131
12. 6 The MTO Shahmaghsoudi Order: From Iran to Canada 164
13. 7 Branches of Sound: The Aurality of Safety in Suf Toronto 190
14. PART III: REFLECTIONS ON SUFISM
15. 8 Reweaving Old Suf Stories: Three Canadian Writers 215
16. 9 Speculations on Sufsm and Gender in Canada: Critical Dialogue between Two Racialized Scholars 249
17. 10 Light upon Light: Would Sufsm by Any Other Name Smell as Sweet? 272
18. Contributors 293
19. Index 297