Sufism, pluralism and democracy
By: edited by Clinton Bennett and Sarwar Alam
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781781792209; 9781781792216
Subjects: Sufism; Political aspects; Case studies; Islam and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Sufism, pluralism and democracy: contexts, comparisons and critiques / Clinton Bennett; title: Section 1. Multi-contextual. 1. Sufis, Saints and Politics in Islam: an historical survey / Clinton Bennett; title: Section 2. European/Euro Asian contexts (Kosovo/Albania and Turkey). 2. Sufism as a Working Spirit in Globalization and Pluralism: The Case of the Hizmet Movement, a Turkey-oriented Global Islamic Network / Heon C. Kim; title: 3. A Paradox of Political Mysticism: The Bektashi Sufi Order as an Islamic Esoteric Community And Factor in Albanian National History / Stephen S. Schwartz; title: Section 3. A Middle Eastern context (Iran). 4. Sufi Politics in the Contemporary West: The Role and Definition of Sufism in the works of Javad Nurbakhsh (1926-2008) / Milad Milani; title: Section 4. South Asian contexts: Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan. 5. Anti-saint or anti-shrine? Tracing Deoband's disdain for the Sufi in Pakistan / Charles M. Ramsey; title: 6. Sufis as shapers of pluralist political culture: the examples of Bangladesh and Indonesia / Clinton Bennett; title: 7. In Search of God, In Search of Humanity: Vilayat-e-Mutlaqa of Hazrat Delaor Husayn Maizbhandari / Sarwar Alam; title: Section 5. Literary & theoretical underpinnings. 8. Two Beloved Sufi poets of the Punjab: A Case of "Hearing Without Listening" / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh; title: 9. Looking Inside the Heart: The Universal Appeal of God and Humanity as Reflected in Ibn al-ʻArabī's Fusus al-Hikam and Maulana Rūmī's Mathnawi Manawi / Sayed Hassan Akhlaq Hussaini; title: CONCLUSION: "Corporate Islam" versus Sufi Islam and the articulation of the present / Sarwar Alam.