Sufism and the 'modern' in Islam / edited by Martin van Bruinessen and Julia Day Howell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruinessen, Martin van.

Howell, Julia Day, 1943-

Series:

Library of modern Middle East studies ; 67.

Library of modern Middle East studies ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism.

Islamic modernism.

Physical Description:

ix, 367 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S.A. by St. Martin's Press, 2007.

Contents:

1 Sufism and the 'Modern' in Islam / Julia Day Howell, Martin van Bruinessen 3

Part I Modalities of Sufi Organization and Practices in Modern Society 19

2 What is a Sufi Order? Revisiting the concept through a case study of the Khalwatiyya in contemporary Egypt / Rachida Chih 21

3 Sufism and Modernity in Turkey: From the authenticity of experience to the practice of discipline / Brian Silverstein 39

4 Elements of Neo-traditional Sufism in Iran / Matthijs van den Bos 61

5 Saint and Sufi in Contemporary Mali / Benjamin F. Soares 76

6 Saints, Politicians and Sufi Bureaucrats: Mysticism and politics in Indonesia's New Order / Martin van Bruinessen 92

Part II The Interrelation of Sufism and Islamic Reform 113

7 Sufi Fundamentalism between India and the Middle East / Itzchak Weismann 115

8 The Reformist Sufism of the Tablighi Jama 'at: The Case of the Meos of Mewat, India / Yoginder Sikand 129

9 National Crisis and the Representation of Traditional Sufism in Indonesia: The periodicals Salafy and Sufi / Michael Laffan 149

10 Sufi Modernities in Contemporary Senegal: Religious dynamics between the local and the global / Leonardo A. Villalon 172

Part III Breaking Out of The Mould: Sufism in New Settings 193

11 Intimate Disciples in the Modern World: The creation of translocal amity among South Asian Sufis in Britain / Pnina Werbner 195

12 Modernity and Islamic Spirituality in Indonesia's New Sufi Networks / Julia Day Howell 217

13 God by All Means...Eclectic faith and Sufi resurgence among the Moroccan bourgeoisie / Patrick Haenni, Raphael Voix 241

14 The Development of a Modern Western Sufism / Celia A. Genn 257

15 Contemporary Sufism and Current Social Theory / John O. Voll 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-352) and index.

ISBN:

9781850438540

1850438544

OCLC:

123375510