The Heritage of Sufism: Late Classical Persianate Sufism (1501-1750) V. 3: Volume 3 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851681930 ISBN 13: 9781851681938

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 1999

Synopsis

This comprehensive study is unique in its chronological breadth, intellectual diversity and historical scope and which demonstrates the central role played by Sufism in Persianate culture in Iran, Central Asia and India

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This final voluime of 'The heritage of Sufism' celebrates the mystical culture and intellectual life of sixteenth - to eighteenth- century Iran and India, an age characterised by a flowering of Persianate culture and which marked the peak of Muslim political power in the region.

In this meticulously researched and erudite collection of essays, twenty-four internationally renowned scholars explore the religious, political, philosophical, mystical, artistic,literary and historical dimensions of the period, embracing such topics as:

* Western orientalism and Persian Sufi literature
* Mystical diagrams, meditation practices and symbolism
* Conflicts and polemics between Mullas and mystics
*Illuminationism and the school of Ibn Arabi
* Historiography and the political background of Sufi Institutions.

The result is a comprehensive study that is unique in its chronological breadth, intellectual diversity and historical scope and which demonstrates the central role played by Sufism in Persianite culture in Iran, Central Asia and India. Together with the first two volumes of this classic study- the first ever in any language to give an in-depth account of a millenium of the history of Sufism - this book will inform and fascinate students and all those interested in the place of mysticism in Islamic culture.

About the Author:

Leonard Lewisohn was a highly regarded scholar of Persian and Sufi literature. He taught at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter; the Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London; and was a Research Associate and Outreach Coordinator at the Department of Academic Research at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where he also taught Persian. Among many others works, he authored Beyond Faith and Infidelity: The Sufi Poetry and Teachings of Mahmud Shabistari and edited the three volumes on The Heritage of Sufism published by Oneworld. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1851681930
• ISBN 13: 9781851681938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 580
• Editor: Lewisohn Leonard