ISBN: 9781848857902

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2016
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.5 x 22.2 cm

Sufism is all too often associated just with ‘mysticism’ in the West. The author of this new textbook, a former pupil of Annemarie Schimmel, suggests that conflating Sufism and mysticism is only partially valid. He shows that the vast majority of Sufi practice, both historically and in the contemporary world, has little or nothing to do with a esoteric transcendence but is rather focused on contemplative activity.