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Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious Life
Jamil M. Abun-Nasr
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Paperback. The Sufi brotherhoods are not religious orders, but religious communities within the general community of Islam. This book reconstructs the development of the Sufi tradition, guided by insights from original Sufi sources, intended to explain the emergence of the Sufi brotherhoods' form of Islamic communalism and its perennial appeal. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The Sufi brotherhoods are not religious orders, but religious communities within the general community of Islam. Their members neither live in monasteries nor take vows of celibacy and poverty. They are Muslims who marry, earn their living and seek wealth and positions of influence in their societies. But they entrust their salvation and well-being in this world to the spiritual guardianship of their brotherhoods' founders and the redemptive efficacy of the mystical rites they set for them. Their form of Islamic religious communalism has become, since the eighteenth century, a dominant aspect of religious life in most Muslim lands, while ... Read more
The Sufi brotherhoods are not religious orders, but religious communities within the general community of Islam. Their members neither live in monasteries nor take vows of celibacy and poverty. They are Muslims who marry, earn their living and seek wealth and positions of influence in their societies. But they entrust their salvation and well-being in this world to the spiritual guardianship of their brotherhoods' founders and the redemptive efficacy of the mystical rites they set for them. Their form of Islamic religious communalism has become, since the eighteenth century, a dominant aspect of religious life in most Muslim lands, while ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C. Hurst & Co
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850658771
SKU
V9781850658771
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About Jamil M. Abun-Nasr
JAMIL M. ABUN-NASR is Emeritus Professor of Islamic studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany and author of many works including A History of North Africa in the Islamic Period and The Tijaniyya: A Sufi Order in the Modern World.
Reviews for Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious Life
'Presents an overview of the development of Sufism from its earliest beginnings followingthe death of the Prophet until the present day.The author traces this history from what he callsthe Sufi tradition of piety, practised largely byisolated individuals, through the appearance ofa variety of different forms of religious practice which eventually develop into increasinglystructured religious brotherhoods with formalised sets of religious ... Read more