In recent years, many historians of Islamic mysticism have been
grappling in sophisticated ways with the difficulties of
essentialism. Reconceptualising the study of Islamic mysticism
during an under-researched period of its history, this book
examines the relationship between Sufism and society in the Muslim
world, from the fall of the Abbasid caliphate to the heyday of the
great Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid empires.
Treating a heretofore under-researched period in the history of
Sufism, this work establishes previously unimagined trajectories
for the study of mystical movements as social actors of real
historical consequence. Thematically organized, the book includes
case studies drawn from the Middle Eastern, Turkic, Persian and
South Asian regions by a group of scholars whose collective
expertise ranges widely across different historical, geographical,
and linguistic landscapes. Chapters theorise why, how, and to what
ends we might reconceptualise some of the basic methodologies,
assumptions, categories of thought, and interpretative paradigms
which have heretofore shaped treatments of Islamic mysticism and
its role in the social, cultural and political history of
pre-modern Muslim societies.
Proposing novel and revisionist treatments of the subject based
on the examination of many under-utilized sources, the book draws
on a number of disciplinary perspectives and methodological
approaches, from art history to religious studies. As such, it will
appeal to students and scholars of Middle East studies, religious
history, Islamic studies and Sufism.
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