Western Sufism: from the Abbasids to the new age
In this work, Mark Sedgwick shows that Western Sufism is not a recent phenomenon of the 'new age' but rather is rooted in a series of intercultural transfers between the Muslim world and the West starting in the Middle Ages, and in centuries of later Western intellectual history.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sufism
/ Reception
/ Western world
/ History
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| RelBib Classification: | AZ New religious movements BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
Sufism
North America
History
B Mysticism B Sufism Europe History B Mysticism History B Mysticism Islam History B Sufism History B Neoplatonism B Sufism |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | In this work, Mark Sedgwick shows that Western Sufism is not a recent phenomenon of the 'new age' but rather is rooted in a series of intercultural transfers between the Muslim world and the West starting in the Middle Ages, and in centuries of later Western intellectual history. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 0190622709 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199977642.001.0001 |