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Western Sufism : from the Abbasids to the new age / Mark Sedgwick.
Van Pelt Library BP188.5 .S43 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sedgwick, Mark J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mysticism--Islam--History.
- Mysticism.
- Mysticism--History.
- History.
- Sufism--History.
- Sufism.
- Sufism--Europe--History.
- Sufism--North America--History.
- Neoplatonism.
- Mysticism--Islam.
- Europe.
- North America.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 350 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Neoplatonism and emanationism
- Plotinus, the key
- Emanation explained
- Neoplatonism spreads
- Arab neoplatonism to Ibn Arabi
- Arab neoplatonism
- The first sufis
- Sufi classics
- Jewish and Christian Neoplatonism to Meister Eckhart
- Jewish neoplatonism
- Jewish sufism
- Latin neoplatonism
- Dervishes, 1480-1899
- Dervishes as angels, deviants, and mystics
- Dervishes, angels and demons
- The view from france
- Sufism as mystical theology
- Deism and pantheism
- The prisca theologia in the Renaissance
- Universalism: Guillaume Postel and the inquisition
- Deism demonstrated by Arab and Turk
- Pantheism and anti-exotericism
- Universalist sufism
- Sufism as esoteric pantheism
- Perennialism and universalism in India
- The Dabistan and after
- Dervishes as Epicurean and fanatical
- Dervishes in drama, painting and verse
- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- Fighting dervishes
- The establishment of sufism in the west, 1910-33
- Transcendentalism, theosophy and sufism
- Transcendentalism and the Missouri platonists
- The theosophical society and Carl-Henrik Bjerregaard
- Ivan Aguéli, the western sufi
- Towards the one: Inayat Khan and the sufi movement
- Inayat Khan visits America
- The sufi message is spread
- The continuation of the sufi movement
- Tradition and consciousness
- René Guénon and the traditionalists
- Georges Gurdjieff and consciousness
- The early years of John G. Bennett
- The development of sufism in the west, 1950-68
- Polarization
- Towards Islam
- Reorientation with Meher Baba
- The travels of John G. Bennett
- The Maryamiyya and the Oglala Sioux
- Idries Shah and sufi psychology
- Shah and the Gurdjieff tradition
- Shah's sufism
- Followers and opponents
- Sufism in the new age
- Traditionalism and the new age
- The sufi movement conserved
- Sufi Sam in San Francisco
- Vilayat and the sufi order international
- Islamic sufism
- Ian Dallas and the Darqawiyya
- Ibn Arabi and Beshara
- The murabitun and sufi jihad
- John G. Bennett at Sherborne.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-331)and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sedgwick, Mark J., author. Western Sufism
- ISBN:
- 9780199977642
- 019997764X
- OCLC:
- 944179664
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