Sufism in Britain / edited by Ron Geaves and Theodore Gabriel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geaves, Ron.

Gabriel, Theodore P. C.

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism--Great Britain.

Sufism.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Contents:

1. Expressions of spirituality in Islam: unity and diversity in Sufi thought and practice / Theodore Gabriel and Ron Geaves

2. Transformation and trends among British Sufis / Ron Geaves

3. Universal Sufis in the UK: Sufism for everyone? / Roy Jackson

4. Shaykh Abdullah Ali al-Hakimi, the ʻAlawi tariqa and British-Yemenis / Mohammad S Seddon

5. Sufism in Britain: the daʻwa of shaykh ʻAbdalqadir as-Sufi / Yasin Dutton

6. The one or the many? transnational Sufism and locality in the British būdshīshiyya / Marta Dominguez-Diaz

7. Conversion narratives among the Alami and Rifaʼi tariqa in Britain / Julianne Hazen

8. Online Sufism: young British Muslims, their internet "selves" and virtual reality / Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor

9. The rise of the "traditional Islam" network(s): neo-Sufism and British Muslim youth / Sadek Hamid

10. What is the Naqshbandi-Haqqani tariqa? Notes on developments and a critique of typologies / Simon Stjernholm

11. Reliving the "classical Islam": emergence and working of the Minhajul Quran movement in the UK / Amer Morgahi

12. "Ours is not a caravan of despair": the influence and presence of the Turkish Sunni Nurcu movement of Hojaeffendi Fethullah Gülen in the UK / Ian G. Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9781441112613

1441112618

OCLC:

854848162

Publisher Number:

99956344975