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1.
Psychology of Early Sufi Sama? Listening and Altered States
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Publisher:
RoutledgeCourzon 2004
Subjects:
Music--Religious Aspects--Sufism
Sufi Music
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...had many links with the Sufi way.One of his many...wrote important works on Sufism, which we will consider...traditions concerning the Sufi masters, their lives...virtually all earlier works of Sufi biography have been lost...his task was to defend Sufism against its many critics...
2.
Sufism in Europe and North America
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Publisher:
RoutledgeCurzon 2004
Subjects:
Sufism--Europe
Sufism--North America
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...representing the essence of Sufism as a non-confessional...last few years that Sufi teachers with distinct...of the presence of Sufi orders. Sufism for immigrant Muslims...reason for joining a Sufi order may be that...religious commitment. Sufism is not a practice...
3.
Sufism: The Formative Period
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Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press 2007
Subjects:
Sufism--History
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...itself was given the name ṣūfiyya.Both 'Sufi' and 'Sufism' are terms adopted from Arabic. In Arabic texts datingfrom...which is the Arabic equivalent ofthe modern English name Sufism. There was controversy over the origins of theterm...
4.
Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Quran, Miraj, Poetic and Theological Writings
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Publisher:
Paulist Press 1996
Subjects:
Sufism--Early Works To 1800
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...0029. The formative phase of Sufi literature shows Sufism as a self-consciousmode of spirituality...0028d. 465/1074). The Sufi synthetic works of the seventh...Arabi.The Qur'an and pre-Sufi SpiritualityIt would be unfair...
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Sufi Visionary of Ottoman Damascus: Abd Al-Ghani Al-Nabulusi, 1641-1731
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Publisher:
RoutledgeCurzon 2005
Subjects:
Sufism--Doctrines
Nabulusi, 'Abd Al-Ghani Ibn Isma'il, 1641-1731
Sufis--Syria--Biography
Sufism--Syria--Damascus--History
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...0101bulusī's book on Sufi doctrine, , written in 1674 when...could antagonise critics of some Sufi thought or of Sufism as a whole.Chapter 3, 'The...time, including his major work on Sufi doctrine, al-Wujūd...
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Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts
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Publisher:
State University of New York Press 1992
Subjects:
Sufism--Early Works To 1800
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...to protect themselves from being drawninto forbidden acts. For definitions of abstinence from classical Sufi sources,see Nurbakhsh, Sufism 4:35-46.136.32 Thus he will have combined all the different reports, that is, all the hadithson...
7.
Beyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2012
Subjects:
Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Maulana, 1207-1273--Criticism and Interpretation
Sufism
God (Islam)--Knowableness
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...of faiths, while whatever is simply stud­ied is the knowledge of bodies.34 Rumi hereby asserts the superiority of gaining knowledge through experi­ence on the Sufi path over studying Sufism and understanding its theory. He
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Jawanmardi: A Sufi Code of Honour
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Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press 2011
Subjects:
Sufism
Sufism--History
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...The Participants in Sufi-Futuwwat/JawanmardiGroups...the emic literature on Sufi-futuwwat/jawanmardi and that of Sufism in general may be explained...were not occupied in Sufism on a full-time basis...201918 This style of Sufi-futuwwat/jawanmardiseems...
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Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality, and Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults
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Publisher:
Routledge 1998
Subjects:
Sufism--20th Century
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...A.A. Saheb Introduction: Sufi tolerance The liberal attitude of Sufism and its tolerance of other religions...relationship is an open one, and hence Sufi lodges in South Asia are places...‘shrine’ of a Sufi saint is a place where he has...
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Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center
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Publisher:
State University of New York Press 1992
Subjects:
Chishtiyah--India--Khuldabad--History
Sufism--India--History
Khuldabad (India)--Religious Life And Customs
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...Teaching to Written Textin Sufism 63The Foundation of the ChishtU...The Interpretation of the Sufi BiographicalTradition in India 85PART IIChisht! Sufism at Khuldabad6. From Delhi...0101m al-Dīn 118The Sufi Master 123Teachings and Practices...
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