num_pages: 280
description: Considers how Lessing's exposure to a particular aspect of tasawwuf, the classical Sufi Way, has shaped her work. Impresses upon the reader the degree to which Lessing is seriously offering her space-fiction utopias as plausible and even necessary alternatives to our present Western ways of life.
language: English
title: Between East and West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing
titlecomplete: Between East and West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing
ratings_count: 1
publisher: State University of New York Press