This article offers observations on the process of differentiation and purification within premodern Sufism during a seminal period in the institutionalization of the Sufi ṭarīqa as a Path to God and as a community of followers. Drawing on manuals and narratives by prominent articulators and representatives of the emerging mainstream Sufi tradition, the article highlights the discursive and actual mechanisms they employed to delineate the borderlines of affiliation with the communities of the genuine Sufis, disentangle the solid-core from lay affiliates, and exclude undesirable elements wrongly associated with Sufism. The construction of higher barriers between mainstream Sufism and its margins is closely tied to the spread of popular forms...
This article examines the contribution of Sufism to peace by studying the role of Shaykh Husamuddin ...
Sufism is often accused of causing the decline of Islam because its teachings are full of fatalism, ...
Dans cet article, l’auteur tente de retracer l’origine des relations, à Bagdad, entre les premiers h...
This article is part of a comprehensive study of the Sufis of medieval Palestine. At its heart resid...
This article details the doctrine of the aṭ-Ṭā’ifa al-Jazūliyya, a populist and politically active S...
Between the end of the 8th/14th century and the beginning of the 9th/15th, the literate elites in Ye...
Ascetic and mystical elements implicitly present within Islam since its beginning became explicit du...
In this article I will analyse the Sufi order Aḥmadiyya-Idrīsiyya Shādhiliyya based in Milan, estab...
eds. Le soufisme a non seulement survécu à l’avènement du XXIe s., mais il connaît un renouveau extr...
This article aims to analyze Sufism as a religious framework for social action in contemporary Syria...
The first chapter in this study presents the poetic thinkers, poets and critics alike, in the tradit...
Muḥy al-Dīn Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240) is one of the greatest exponents of the history of Sufism and Isl...
The aim of this article is to analyse a local expression of the transnational Ahbash Sufi movement i...
This paper analyses popular religiouness and the rábitas in the Alpujarra, a rural area on the south...
This article deals with Sufism in Ethiopia, how people came to affiliate themselves to certain Ṣūfī ...
This article examines the contribution of Sufism to peace by studying the role of Shaykh Husamuddin ...
Sufism is often accused of causing the decline of Islam because its teachings are full of fatalism, ...
Dans cet article, l’auteur tente de retracer l’origine des relations, à Bagdad, entre les premiers h...
This article is part of a comprehensive study of the Sufis of medieval Palestine. At its heart resid...
This article details the doctrine of the aṭ-Ṭā’ifa al-Jazūliyya, a populist and politically active S...
Between the end of the 8th/14th century and the beginning of the 9th/15th, the literate elites in Ye...
Ascetic and mystical elements implicitly present within Islam since its beginning became explicit du...
In this article I will analyse the Sufi order Aḥmadiyya-Idrīsiyya Shādhiliyya based in Milan, estab...
eds. Le soufisme a non seulement survécu à l’avènement du XXIe s., mais il connaît un renouveau extr...
This article aims to analyze Sufism as a religious framework for social action in contemporary Syria...
The first chapter in this study presents the poetic thinkers, poets and critics alike, in the tradit...
Muḥy al-Dīn Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240) is one of the greatest exponents of the history of Sufism and Isl...
The aim of this article is to analyse a local expression of the transnational Ahbash Sufi movement i...
This paper analyses popular religiouness and the rábitas in the Alpujarra, a rural area on the south...
This article deals with Sufism in Ethiopia, how people came to affiliate themselves to certain Ṣūfī ...
This article examines the contribution of Sufism to peace by studying the role of Shaykh Husamuddin ...
Sufism is often accused of causing the decline of Islam because its teachings are full of fatalism, ...
Dans cet article, l’auteur tente de retracer l’origine des relations, à Bagdad, entre les premiers h...