Islam: branches and groups

The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history.

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Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body.

Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood.

The North African scholar Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi (1436-90), from Tlemcen, present-day Algeria, was one of the most influential theologians and logicians in the Islamic tradition.

The North African scholar Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi (1436-90), from Tlemcen, present-day Algeria, was one of the most influential theologians and logicians in the Islamic tradition.

This story begins with a divine unveiling: In 1220, a mysterious youth took the Sufi scholar, poet, and philosopher Muhy al-Dn Ibn Arab behind the veil of the night.

This story begins with a divine unveiling: In 1220, a mysterious youth took the Sufi scholar, poet, and philosopher Muhy al-Dn Ibn Arab behind the veil of the night.

'Until effaced no one can actuallyEnter the Court of Holy Majesty.

The Persian Sufi Tradition and Shams al-Din Lahiji: Sufi Metamorphosis offers a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and spiritual transformations that reshaped Persian Sufism during the late medieval period in Iran.

The Qadiriyya Sufi Order: Saints, Shrines and Politics in 21st Century Iraq offers the first comprehensive, field-based examination of contemporary Iraqi Sufism through the lens of one of Islam's most influential mystical brotherhoods.

'Until effaced no one can actuallyEnter the Court of Holy Majesty.

The Qadiriyya Sufi Order: Saints, Shrines and Politics in 21st Century Iraq offers the first comprehensive, field-based examination of contemporary Iraqi Sufism through the lens of one of Islam's most influential mystical brotherhoods.

The Persian Sufi Tradition and Shams al-Din Lahiji: Sufi Metamorphosis offers a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and spiritual transformations that reshaped Persian Sufism during the late medieval period in Iran.

Shedding new light on sectarianism outside the confines of Pakistan's sociopolitical context, this novel book recontextualizes religious sectarianism in the country by studying it as a cultural and historical phenomenon.

Shedding new light on sectarianism outside the confines of Pakistan's sociopolitical context, this novel book recontextualizes religious sectarianism in the country by studying it as a cultural and historical phenomenon.

Here in the West, Islam is now part of our world.

Henry Corbin and Ibn Sīnā: Epistemology, Hermeneutics, and the Imaginal WorldA philosophical journey into knowledge, imagination, and the transformation of human understanding.

This volume argues for the pressing need to understand the role of religious beliefs, religious scholars, and religious centres in promoting welfare and social protection services for the strengthening of global social welfare systems.

This volume argues for the pressing need to understand the role of religious beliefs, religious scholars, and religious centres in promoting welfare and social protection services for the strengthening of global social welfare systems.

This book examines how mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ineffable.

Sadr al-Din Qunawi's 'The Key to the Unseen': A Guide Book to Sufi Metaphysics offers the first systematic articulation of Ibn ?

Sadr al-Din Qunawi's 'The Key to the Unseen': A Guide Book to Sufi Metaphysics offers the first systematic articulation of Ibn ?

This book examines how mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ineffable.

This is the first full-length monograph to explore Sufism in Saudi Arabia since 1979-a groundbreaking journey into a rarely seen side of the kingdom's religious life.

The Sudanese Muslim reformer Mahmud Muhammad Taha (d.

The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present.

The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.

With more than 3,000 entries and cross-references on the history, main figures, institutions, theory, and literary works associated with Islam's mystical tradition, Sufism, this dictionary brings together in one volume, extensive historical information that helps put contemporary events into a historical context.

The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.

With more than 3,000 entries and cross-references on the history, main figures, institutions, theory, and literary works associated with Islam's mystical tradition, Sufism, this dictionary brings together in one volume, extensive historical information that helps put contemporary events into a historical context.

Conocer a un maestro sufí —síntesis de Jesús, Buda y el pequeño Yoda— fue como tragarme un elefante de un bocado.

What if the life you have been searching for was never somewhere else?

In "e;From Matter to Light"e;, Waqas Hameed Bajwa—a seasoned leader with over 25 years of experience in the social and development sectors—embarks on a transformative journey to bridge the gap between modern physics and Sufi mysticism.

At its core, this book is a collection of spiritual experiences of one of Islam's greatest teachers, who led an exemplary life of piety and servanthood.

What if the chaos you feel isn't a personal failing,  but a design flaw in modern life itself?

There is a particular kind of dark that every searching soul knows.

Description of The Wisdom of RumiRumi is, beyond any doubt, one of the greatest Muslim poets and philosophers.

What if the force behind all creation was not distant, but present in every breath, choice, and moment of awareness?

In the eighteenth century, numerous Sufi communities across the Indian subcontinent demonstrated a notable interest in producing Arabic literature.

In the eighteenth century, numerous Sufi communities across the Indian subcontinent demonstrated a notable interest in producing Arabic literature.

For many observers, the predation of Boko Haram, unsparing and venal in its manifestation, is shocking, and it seems to lack a local historical frame of reference that would help make it understandable.

Sufism in Ottoman and Post Ottoman Europe: Entanglements in Past and Present offers the first in depth, regionally nuanced study of Sufi networks, legacies, and transformations across Southeastern Europe from the Ottoman period through the contemporary post socialist era.

Sufism in Ottoman and Post Ottoman Europe: Entanglements in Past and Present offers the first in depth, regionally nuanced study of Sufi networks, legacies, and transformations across Southeastern Europe from the Ottoman period through the contemporary post socialist era.

This book looks at fatwa in Indonesia during the period following the fall of President Suharto.

This book looks at fatwa in Indonesia during the period following the fall of President Suharto.

Iraqi Shiism is undergoing profound changes, leading to new elaborations of the relationship between clerics and democratic principles in an Islamic state.