Seeing with the Heart: the Mysticism of an Islamic Sufi Lineage from India in the West
In 1976, the Indian Sufi shaykh Azad Rasool (1921-2006) began spreading the mystical teachings of his lineage to the Euro-American sphere. His two living successors, Hamid Hasan (b. 1961) of the School of Sufi Teaching and Ahmed Abdur Rashid (b. 1942) of the Circle Group, continue this line today, e...
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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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Erfurt
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Further subjects: | B
Sufism in the West
B Mysticism B Meditation B Contemporary Sufism B Western Esotericism B Naqshbandī Mujaddidī B Neo-Sufism B Islamic Mysticism B New Religious Movements (NRMs) B Experiential Investigation B Thesis |
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| Summary: | In 1976, the Indian Sufi shaykh Azad Rasool (1921-2006) began spreading the mystical teachings of his lineage to the Euro-American sphere. His two living successors, Hamid Hasan (b. 1961) of the School of Sufi Teaching and Ahmed Abdur Rashid (b. 1942) of the Circle Group, continue this line today, each in his own way. This study seeks to analyze the mysticism of this hitherto largely unstudied lineage and how its teachings have been introduced to the West, considering also the relationship of such mysticism to Islamic belief and practice as well as to social or political activism. Using a qualitative interpretivisitic research design, analysis of a broad range of textual sources is interwoven with ethnographic field data collected primarily in Germany and the US from 2015 to 2020. It is argued that this lineage expanded into two main markets in the West: those interested in non-traditional forms of spirituality as well as Muslims of various diasporic backgrounds, and that under Rasool, this transfer involved some changes in presentation to new audiences, but while retaining a mostly unmodified |
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| Item Description: | Tag der Disputation: 18.06.2021 |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (477 Seiten) |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:547-202400523 |
