Global sufism : boundaries, structures and politics / Francesco Piraino, Mark Sedgwick (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Piraino, Francesco, 1984- editor.

Sedgwick, Mark J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism.

Globalization--Religious aspects--Sufism.

Globalization.

Globalization--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 299 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hurst & Company, 2019.

Summary:

Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts to explore systematically the key themes of Sufism's new global presence, from Yemen to Senegal via Chicago and Sweden.The contributors look at the global spread and stance of such major actors as the Ba 'Alawiyya, the 'Afropolitan' Tijaniyya, and the Gülen Movement. They map global Sufi culture, from Rumi to rap, and ask how global Sufism accommodates different and contradictory gender practices. They examine the contested and shifting relationship between the Islamic and the universal: is Sufism the timeless and universal essence of all religions, the key to tolerance and co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims? Or is it the purely Islamic heart of traditional and authentic practice and belief?Finally, the book turns to politics. States and political actors in the West and in the Muslim world are using the mantle and language of Sufism to promote their objectives, while Sufis are building alliances with them against common enemies. This raises the difficult question of whether Sufis are defending Islam against extremism, supporting despotism against democracy, or perhaps doing both.

Contents:

Global Rumi / Robert Irwin

The Islamisation of Western Sufism after the early new age / Mark Sedgwick

Afropolitan Sufism: the contemporary Tijaniyya in global contexts / Zachary Wright

Who is the infidel? Religious boundaries and social change in the Shadhiliyya Darqawiyya ʻ Alawiyya / Francesco Piraino

Eu-rap-ia: rap, Sufism and the Arab Qaṣīda in Europe / Andrea Brigaglia

Contemporary Mawlids in Chicago / Justine Howe

Disordering and reordering Sufism: North American Sufi teachers and the Tariqa model / William Rory Dickson and Merin Shobhana Xavier

In the path of the Ancestors: the Ba ʻ Alawi order and the struggle for shaping the future of Islam / Besnik Sinani

The making of Sufism: the Gülen movement and its effort to create a new image / Florian Volm

Sounding Sufi: Sufi-oriented messages on Swedish public service radio / Simon Stjernholm

Algerian 'traditional' Islam and political Sufism / Thomas Joassin

Neo-traditionalist Sufis and Arab politics: a preliminary mapping of transnational networks of counter-revolutionary scholars after Arab revolutions / Usaama al-Azami.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781787381346

178738134X

OCLC:

1091678717

Publisher Number:

99982191406