Routledge handbook on Sufism

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Transliteration
Preface
Part One The Early Period
	1 The Origins of Sufism
	2 Al-Ḥārith Al-Muḥāsibī and Spiritual Purification between Asceticism and Mysticism
	3 Al-Junayd Al-Baghdādī: Chief of the Sect
	4 Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī and Discussions about Intoxicated Sufism
	5 Al-Ghazālī: In Praise Of Sufism
	6 ‘Ayn Al-Quḍāt’s Qur’anic Vision: From Black Words to White Parchment
	7 Ibn ‘Arabi and the AkbarĪ Tradition
	8 Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī and His Place in the History of Sufism
	9 Opposition to Sufis in the Formative Period
	10 Narrativizing Early Mystic and Sufi Women: Mechanisms of Gendering In Sufi Hagiographies
	11 Sufism and Travelling
	12 Sufism and Qur’ānic Ethics
	13 Love and Beauty in Sufism
	14 Sufism in Classical Persian Poetry
Part Two The Middle Period
	15 Sufi Orders in the Medieval Period
	16 The Bektaşiyya: The Formative Period, 1250–1516
	17 The Chishtiyya
	18 The Qalandariyya: From the Mosque to the Ruin in Poetry, Place, and Practice
	19 The Shādhiliyya: Foundational Teachings and Practices
	20 Sufism, Tombs and Convents
	21 Clothing and Investiture in Medieval Sufism
	22 Sufism and Christian Mysticism: The Neoplatonic Factor
	23 The Jewish-Sufi Encounter in the Middle Ages
	24 Sufism and the Hindu Dharma
	25 Sufism and the Safavids in Iran: A Further Challenge to “Decline”
	26 The Mughals and Sufism
	27 Sufism in the Ottoman Empire
	28 The Qāḍīzādelis and Sufism
Part Three The Modern Period
	29 Sufism in Modern Turkey
	30 Sufism in the UK
	31 Sufism and Vernacular Knowledge in Sindh
	32 A Sufism for Our Time: The Egyptian Society for Spiritual and Cultural Research
	33 Sufism in Modern Morocco
	34 Sufism in Senegal
	35 Sufism in North America
Index