Sufis and Anti-Sufis
Subtitle: The Defence, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World (Curzon Sufi Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: October 21, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780700710584
Subjects: Islam; 20th century; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Ethnic Studies - General; Islam - Sufi; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Sufism
First sentence: The eighteenth century has commonly been viewed as a dark age for the world of Islam, a time of political, economic and cultural decline in the three great Islamic states: the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Iran and Mughal India.