Islam: branches and groups

Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an extraordinary book that takes you deep into these ordinary women's worlds.

Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age explores the dynamics at play between what are usually understood as two very different forms of Islam, namely Sufism and Salafism.

This study analyses the commentaries of four Muslim intellectuals who have turned to scripture as a liberating text to confront an array of problems, from patriarchy, racism, and empire to poverty and interreligious communal violence.

The book explains Sadra's theory of the nature of afterlife.

A spiritual memoir by the author of God Is a Verb.

Islamic Thought is a fresh and contemporary introduction to the philosophies and doctrines of Islam.

The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries.

Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings, and death continues to haunt them.

Refine your heart and mind with the wisdom of Islamic spirituality"e;To live a meaningful life-one that brings us joy, contentment and fulfillment-we have to do the inner spiritual work of becoming a more complete human being.

A study of the writings of Ibn Barrajān, an influential pioneer of intellectual mysticism in the Muslim West.

This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the foremost Islamic scholar and mystic of the medieval period.

What is Sufism?

Ibn al-Arabi's Fusus al-Hikam is a translation of one of the most important works written on Islamic Mysticism.

The book, first published in 1906, outlines the religious, ceremonial, civil and moral laws and regulations of Islam.

This book deals with the medieval history of Islam in the Indus Valley.

What is Sufism?

The works of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan are one of the great spiritual treasures of the world.

The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today.

This book traces the evolution of Sufism from the formative period to the present.

The book explains Sadra's theory of the nature of afterlife.

This book describes the emergence of Muslim scholarly communities from the origins of Islam until the mid-tenth century.

Examines the endurance and influence of mystical beliefs on political strategy in Iran from the Safavid dynasty to the present.

Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought uses classical Islamic sources to trace the development of Islamic eschatology during the formative centuries of Islamic intellectual history.

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.

This volume provides an objective analysis of current trends and developments in the beliefs and practices of Sufis in Britain.

Originally published in 1951, this book provides a thorough explanation of the essential elements of Islam: Muhammad and the Quran, Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, Pilgrimage, Holy War, Hadith, and Sunna, Creed, Prophets, Philosophy, Law, Sects, Mysticism, Social Life and Modern Movements.

This book sheds light on the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship (BMF), one of North America's major Sufi movements, and one of the first to establish a Sufi shrine in the region.

This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's important work, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, is a fully revised translation from the French original and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.

Western Sufism is sometimes dismissed as a relatively recent "e;new age"e; phenomenon, but in this book Mark Sedgwick argues that it has deep roots, both in the Muslim world and in the West.

Here, Thierry Zarcone and Angela Hobart offer a vigorous and authoritative exploration of the link between Islam and shamanism in contemporary Muslim culture, examining how the old practice of shamanism was combined with elements of Sufism in order to adapt to wider Islamic society.

Originally published in 1966, this was the first of Muhammad 'Abduh's works to be translated into English.

A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint.

How to approach the complex intellectual legacy of a modern Muslim thinker like Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)?

Muhyi l-Din Ibn `Arabi (1165-1240) was a hugely influential figure in the development of Sufism, yet although interest in his work continues to grow, his poetry has received very little attention.

An original study of the transformation of Safavid Persia from a majority Sunni country to a Twelver Shi'i realm"e;Mysticism"e; in Iran is an in-depth analysis of significant transformations in the religious landscape of Safavid Iran that led to the marginalization of Sufism and the eventual emergence of 'irfan as an alternative Shi'i model of spirituality.

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Purification of the soul is a principle that is central to understanding Islamic spirituality but despite this, relatively little has been written explicitly in the Islamic tradition regarding this discrete method of spiritual purification.

How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives?

Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur.

Women have traditionally played a vital part in Islam throughout Central Asia - the vast area from the Caspian Sea to Siberia.

As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition.

This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.