Popular Sufism in Eastern Europe
Subtitle: Sufi brotherhoods and the dialogue with Christianity and 'heterodoxy'
By: H.T. Norris
Series: Routledge Sufi series -- 20; RoutledgeCurzon Sūfī series -- 20
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780415297554
Subjects: Sufism -- Europe, Eastern; Islamic sects -- Europe, Eastern; Islam -- Relations -- Christianity; Christianity and other religions -- Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-151) and index
Table of contents: title: The geographical setting of popular Sufism in Eastern Europe; title: Sufi brotherhoods and the impact of Sufism on national identity within the Balkan Muslim communities; title: The Krstjani and the Bosnjaks : Sufi orders and the abiding memory of the Bosnian church; title: 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; title: Popular Sufism in Bulgaria and Macedonia : Demir Baba Akyazili, the Kizilbash saints of Deli Orman and the neo-Malamiyya of Muhammad Nur al-ʻArabi; title: 'The heterodox hero', the mythical Sari Saltik and his many tombs in Albanian and in Tatar lands; title: The popular expression of dhikr amongst the Suki communities of Eastern Europe; title: 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; title: A future role for Balkan Sufism and the revival of Popular Sufism among the Tatars of the Crimean peninsula