"In Sufism East and West, the contributors investigate the redirection and dynamics of Sufism in the modern era, specifically from the perspective of global cross-cultural exchange. Edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, the book explores the role of mystical Islam in the complex interchange and fluidity in the resonance spaces of "East" and "West The volume challenges the enduring Orientalist binary coding of East-versus-West and argues instead for a more mutual process of cultural plaiting and shared tradition. By highlighting amendments, adaptations and expansions of Sufi semantics during the last centuries, it also questions the persistent perception of Sufism in its post-classical epoch as a corrupt imitation of the legacy of the great Sufis of the past"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Dabistan and Orientalist views of Sufism / Carl W. Ernst -- Definitions of Sufism as a meeting place of Eastern and Western "creative imaginations" / Alexander Knysh -- Sufi amnesia in Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Tahdhib al-akhlaq / Jamal Malik -- Discussing the Sufism of the early modern period: a new historiographical outlook on the Tariqa Muhammadiyya / Rachida Chih -- Sufism and the Gurdjieff movement: multiple itineraries of interaction / Mark Sedgwick -- Beyond West meets East: space and simultaneity in post-millennial Western Sufi autobiographical writings / Marcia Hermansen -- Sufism in the modern West: a taxonomy of typologies and the category of "dynamic integrejectionism" / Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh -- Between two or three worlds: reversion to Islam, Beur culture and Western Sufism in the Tariqa budshishiyya / Marta Dominguez Diaz -- Between religiosity, cultural heritage and politics: Sufi-oriented interests in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina / Catharina Raudvere -- Transmitting and transforming traditions: Salman Ahmad and Sufi rock / Ali S. Asani.

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