Click here for NICC Library Webpage
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
ID Information
Calmar New Materials
Peosta New Materials
Advanced
Alphabetical
Basic
History
Search:
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
ISBN/ISSN Exact Match
ISBN/ISSN Browse
Serial Title Browse
Title Alphabetical
Subject Alphabetical
Author Alphabetical
Alphabetical Series
Barcode
Bib No.
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Series Keyword
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Northeast Iowa Community College
Item Information
Holdings
More by this author
Knysh, Alexander D., author.
Subjects
Sufism -- History.
Mysticism -- Islam -- History.
Mysticism -- Islam
Sufism
Sufismus.
11.83 movements within Islam.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Knysh, Alexander D., author.
by title:
Sufism : a new histo...
MARC Display
Sufism : a new history of Islamic mysticism / Alexander Knysh.
by
Knysh, Alexander D., author.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Description:
xiv, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
How and why Sufism came to be -- What's in a name? How definitions of Sufism have become a site of polemical partis-pris -- Discourses -- Sufism in comparison : the common ferment of Hellenism -- Practices, ethos, communities, and leaders -- Sufism's recent trajectories : what lies behind Sufi-Salafi confrontation?
Summary:
A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present. After centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the twentieth century, only to experience a stunning revival in recent decades. In this comprehensive new history of Sufism from the earliest centuries of Islam to today, Alexander Knysh, a leading expert on the subject, reveals the tradition in all its richness. Knysh explores how Sufism has been viewed by both insiders and outsiders since its inception. He examines the key aspects of Sufism, from definitions and discourses to leadership, institutions, and practices. He devotes special attention to Sufi approaches to the Qur'an, drawing parallels with similar uses of scripture in Judaism and Christianity. He traces how Sufism grew from a set of simple moral-ethical precepts into a sophisticated tradition with professional Sufi masters (shaykhs) who became powerful players in Muslim public life but whose authority was challenged by those advocating the equality of all Muslims before God. Knysh also examines the roots of the ongoing conflict between the Sufis and their fundamentalist critics, the Salafis--a major fact of Muslim life today. Based on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Sufism is an indispensable account of a vital aspect of Islam --
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Copy
Status
Peosta Library
Circulation Stacks
297.4 Kny
2017
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Format:
HTML
Plain text
Delimited
Subject:
Email to:
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9807
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.