The nature of Sufism : an ontological reading of the mystical in Islam /

The nature of Sufism : an ontological reading of the mystical in Islam /

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Author / Creator:	Milani, Milad, author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xxiii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge religion in contemporary Asia series Routledge religion in contemporary Asia series.
Subject:	Sufism. Mysticism -- Islam. Mysticism -- Islam. Sufism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12640076

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ISBN:	9781138328334 1138328332 9781032079059 1032079053 9780429448737 9780429828584 (ePub ebook) 9780429828591 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book explores how Sufis approach their faith as Muslims, upholding an Islamic worldview, but going about making sense of their religion through the world in which they exist, often in unexpected ways. Using a phenomenological approach, the book examines Sufism as lived experience within the Muslim lifeworld, focusing on the Muslim experience of Islamic history. It draws on selected case studies ranging from classic Sufism to Sufism in the contemporary era mainly taken from biographical and hagiographical data, manuscript texts and treatises. In this way, it provides a revisionist approach to theories and methods on Sufism, and, more broadly, the category of mysticism"--
Other form:	Online version: Milani, Milad, The nature of Sufism New York : Routledge, 2021. 9780429448737

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. 'Introduction' to Sufism
2. The Journey Through Islam: a phenomenological analysis of the Sufi tariqa and the experience of the 'master'
3. 'Being Sufi'
4. Jesus as Sign
5. Absent Christ, present God
6. Break with the past: transgressing restrictions of the category and scholarship on 'mysticism'
7. Conclusion: The ontological question for Sufism
Index.