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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Preface to the 2011 Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1. What Is Sufism?
“Dervish” and “Fakir”: The Outsider’s View of Sufism
The Orientalist “Discovery” of Sufism
The Term Sufi as a Prescriptive Ethical Concept
Actual Terminology Used for Sufis
2. The Sacred Sources of Sufism
The Qur’anic Event as the Matrix of Mystical Experience
Mystical Themes of the Qur’an
The Prophet Muhammad as Mystical Exemplar and Object of Devotion
3. Saints and Sainthood
4. The Names of God, Meditation, and Mystical Experience
Internalizing the Word of God
Advanced Spiritual Stations, Practices, and Experiences
5. The Sufi Orders: Mastery, Discipleship, and Initiation
6. Sufi Poetry
The Basics of Islamicate Poetry
Arabic Sufi Poetry
Persian Sufi Poetry
Translations, Versions, and the Scripturalization of Poetry
Sufi Poetry in Other Islamicate Languages
7. Sufi Music and Dance
Regional Traditions of Music and Dance
8. Sufism in the Contemporary World
Sufism and Modernism
Sufism and the State
Sufism and Fundamentalist Islam
The Publication of the Secret
New Styles of Sufi Leadership
Notes
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Index
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