Morals and mysticism in Persian sufism
Subtitle: a history of sufi-futuwwat in iran
By: Lloyd Ridgeon.
Series: Routledge Sufi series -- 10
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415544344; 9780203851609
Subjects: Sufism -- Iran -- History; Mysticism -- Islam -- Iran -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of futuwwat: muruwwat and the ethics of the 'Ayyaran; title: 2. Futuwwat and early Persian Sufis; title: 3. Institutionalisation within the Sufi futuwwat associations during the 12th-14th centuries; title: 4. Timurid futuwwat: the case of Husayn Wa'iz Kashifi; title: 5. Futuwwat from the Safavids to the early modern era: Qalandar and Khaksar Jawanmardi; title: 6. Futuwwat in the modern era: the Zurkhana between tradition and change.