Sufism & Islamic Mysticism

Focused on Amad Ibn Ajba an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qurnic exegesis this book engages crit...

Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study foc...

Jalaloddin Rumis Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or Spiritual Couplets, composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of I...

One of the most controversial issues that divided Islamic philosophers and theologians for many centuries was whether human beings would have a spi...

This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Examining the cultural, socio-econo...

With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa'di (1210-1281) is a vital classical poet and a towering figure of the medieval Persian canon. In this ...