Popular Sufism in Eastern Europe : Sufi brotherhoods and the dialogue with Christianity and 'heterodoxy' /
Norris, H. T.
London : Routledge,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-151) and index.
The geographical setting of popular Sufism in Eastern Europe -- Sufi brotherhoods and the impact of Sufism on national identity within the Balkan Muslim communities -- The Krstjani and the Bosnjaks : Sufi orders and the abiding memory of the Bosnian church -- Islamic antinomianism, 'heterodoxy' and Persian Monism in the literature and the thought of the Albanians : the Sufi inspirations of Naim Frasher̈i, Albania's greatest poet -- Popular Sufism in Bulgaria and Macedonia : Demir Baba Akyazili, the Kizilbash saints of Deli Orman and the neo-Malamiyya of Muhammad Nur al-ʻArabi -- 'The heterodox hero', the mythical Sari Saltik and his many tombs in Albanian and in Tatar lands -- The popular expression of dhikr amongst the Suki communities of Eastern Europe -- The Bektashiyya brotherhood, its village communities, and inter-religious tensions along the border between Albania and Greek Epirus, at the beginning of the twentieth century -- A future role for Balkan Sufism and the revival of Popular Sufism among the Tatars of the Crimean peninsula.
Sufism
Islamic sects
Islam
Christianity and other religions