Sufism in Canada

Sufism in Canada considers how Sufism informs Islam and popular spirituality, opening new avenues of understanding about religiosity and Muslim identities in this country.

Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond is an independent scholar in Islamic and gender studies whose work has appeared in Canadian Ethnic Studies, ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Merin Shobhana Xavier is an associate professor of religion and diaspora at Queen’s University. She is the author of The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada and Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures, and a coauthor, with Meena Sharify-Funk and William Rory Dickson, of Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture.

Contributors: Sara Abdel-Latif, Emily Victoria Hanlon, Marcia Hermansen, Amina Jamal, Naïm Jeanbart, Atif Khalil, Maryam Khan, Abdul-Rehman Malik, Alia O’Brien

Until recently, there has been nothing written about Sufism in Canada. This collection is exceedingly important.