Title: Saints And Sons
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.
Subjects: Sufism, History, Ahmadiyya, Islamic sects, Middle east, history, Islam, history