The Naqshbandiyya: orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition
Itzchak Weismann
The Naqshbandiyya: orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition
Author
Itzchak WeismannPublisher
RoutledgeEdition 1
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Title and Author
The Naqshbandiyya: orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition / Itzchak WeismannPublication Details
لندن : Routledge، 2007مPhysical Description
xv, 208 p.: ill.; 24 cm.Subject
Naqshabandiyah HistorySufism History
series
(Routledge Sufi series؛ )Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references )p. 981-200( and index.
Contents
The core and contours of a Sufi brotherhood -- Local beginnings in the oases of inner Asia (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries) -- Consolidation and expansion -- Sharia and renewal in the great empires (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) -- Inner rivalries and cooperation -- Scholarship and organization into the modern world (nineteenth century to the present) -- The persistence of older traditions -- Modern transformations on the path (seventeenth to twentieth centuries) -- The contemporary situation