Sufism: The Formative Period
Ahmet T. Karamustafa, “Sufism: The Formative Period”
Edinburgh University Press | ISBN: 9780748619191 | 2007 | PDF | 2.74 MB | 217 pages
In the study of Sufi sm, often described as the major mystical tradition within Islam, essentialising approaches that postulate an unchanging core to all Sufi phenomena have certainly occupied a prominent place, yet historical and philological approaches that direct proper attention to historical context have been in place long before the onset of historicist and constructivist criticism and can hardly be characterised as marginal.The study is in the form of an historical overview that is at once synthetic and analytical. It is synthetic in its integration of excellent recent works on individual figures and particular themes into a unifi ed narrative of the emergence and development of Sufi sm as a major mode of piety in early Islamic history.
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