Saints And Sons
Subtitle: The Making And Remaking Of The Rashidi Ahmadi Sufi Order, 1799-2000 (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: January 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9789004140134
Subjects: Islam; Islamic Studies; History: World; Architecture; Middle East; Islamic sects; Interior Design - General; Islam - Sufi; History; Middle East - General; Ahmadiyya; Sufism
Description: "This first history of the Rashidi Ahmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes."--Jacket.