Itzchak Weismann

The Naqshbandiyya (eBook, ePUB)

Orthodoxy and Activism in a Worldwide Sufi Tradition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume seeks to present a broad picture of the evolution of the ideas and organizational forms of the Naqshbandi order throughout its history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134353040
• Artikelnr.: 38260400

Autorenporträt

Itzchak Weismann is senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern history, University of Haifa, Israel. His research interests focus on modern Islam, particularly interrelations between Sufism and fundamentalist and radical movements.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Core and Contours of a Sufi Brotherhood 2. Local Beginnings in the
Oases of Inner Asia (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) 3. Consolidation
and Expansion 4. Shari'a and Renewal in the Great Empires (Sixteenth to
Eighteenth Centuries) 5. Inner Rivalries and Cooperation 6. Scholarship and
Organization into the Modern World (Nineteenth Century to the Present) 7.
The Persistence of Older Traditions 8. Modern Transformations on the Path
(Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries) 9. The Contemporary Situation