Research Catalog

Title

Sufi institutions / edited by Alexandre Papas.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Papas, Alexandre

Description

xv, 442 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.

Summary

"This volume describes the social and practical aspects of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) across centuries and geographical regions. Its authors seek to transcend ethereal, essentialist and "spiritualizing" approaches to Sufism, on the one hand, and purely pragmatic and materialistic explanations of its origins and history, on the other. Covering five topics (Sufism's economy, social role of Sufis, Sufi spaces, politics, and organization), the volume shows that mystics have been active socio-religious agents who could skillfully adjust to the conditions of their time and place, while also managing to forge an alternative way of living, worshiping and thinking. Basing themselves on the most recent research on Sufi institutions, the contributors to this volume substantially expand our understanding of the vicissitudes of Sufism by paying special attention to its organizational and economic dimensions, as well as complex and often ambivalent relations between Sufis and the societies in which they played a wide variety of important and sometimes critical roles. Contributors are Mehran Afshari, Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Semih Ceyhan, Rachida Chih, Nathalie Clayer, David Cook, Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Daphna Ephrat, Peyvand Firouzeh, Nathan Hofer, Hussain Ahmad Khan, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Richard McGregor, Ahmet Yaşar Ocak, Alexandre Papas, Luca Patrizi, Paulo Pinto, Adam Sabra, Mark Sedgwick, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Knut S. Vikør and Neguin Yavari"--

Series Statement

Handbook of Sufi studies ; volume 1

Uniform Title

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East (2014). Handbook of Sufi studies ; v. 1.

Subject

• Sufism > History
• Sufism > Social aspects
• Sufism > Economic aspects
• Public administration > Islamic countries
• Public administration
• Sufism
• Islamic countries

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. What Is a Ṣūfī institution? / Alexandre Papas -- Economies of Sufism / Adam Sabra -- Endowments for Ṣūfīs and their institutions / Nathan Hofer -- Donations to Ṣūfīs and Ṣūfī institutions / Hussain Ahmad Khan -- Sufism, futuwwa, and professional guilds / Mehran Afshari -- Ṣūfī places and dwellings / Daphna Ephrat, Paulo G. Pinto -- Ṣūfī shrines / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen -- Ṣūfī lodges / Peyvand Firouzeh -- Ṣūfī outposts (ribāṭs) / Nathan Hofer -- The social role of Ṣūfīs / Rachida Chih -- Ṣūfī altruism / Richard McGregor -- Sufism, urbanisation, and sociability in cities / Nathalie Clayer -- Ṣūfīs in rural environments / Ahmet Yaşar Ocak -- Sufism and worldly powers / Alexandre Papas -- Ṣūfī terminology of power / Luca Patrizi -- Ṣūfīs as court advisors / Neguin Yavari -- Sufism, the army, and holy war / David Cook -- Ṣūfī sultanates and imamates / Knut S. Vikør -- The organisation of mysticism / Mark Sedgwick -- The first communities / Jean-Jacques Thibon -- Ṣūfī lineages and families / Ismail Fajrie Alatas -- Established Ṣūfī orders / Semih Ceyhan -- Cyber Sufism / Stéphane A. Dudoignon.

Call Number

JFE 22-2407

ISBN

• 9789004389076
• 9004389075

LCCN

2020034591

OCLC

1178901542

Title

Sufi institutions / edited by Alexandre Papas.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Handbook of Sufi studies ; volume 1

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East (2014). Handbook of Sufi studies ; v. 1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Papas, Alexandre, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Sufi institutions Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. 9789004392601 (DLC) 2020034592

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2407