RT Book
T1 The nature of Sufism: an ontological reading of the mystical in Islam
T2 Routledge religion in contemporary Asia series
A1 Milani, Milad
LA English
PP New York
PB Routledge
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1752844483
AB Introduction -- 1. 'Introduction' to Sufism -- 2. The Journey Through Islam: a phenomenological analysis of the Sufi tariqa and the  experience of the 'master' -- 3. 'Being Sufi' -- 4. Jesus as Sign -- 5. Absent Christ, present God -- 6. Break with the past: transgressing restrictions of the category and scholarship on  'mysticism' -- 7. Conclusion: The ontological question for Sufism -- Index.
AB "This book explores how Sufis approach their faith as Muslims, upholding an Islamic worldview, but going about making sense of their religion through the world in which they exist, often in unexpected ways. Using a phenomenological approach, the book examines Sufism as lived experience within the Muslim lifeworld, focusing on the Muslim experience of Islamic history. It draws on selected case studies ranging from classic Sufism to Sufism in the contemporary era mainly taken from biographical and hagiographical data, manuscript texts and treatises. In this way, it provides a revisionist approach to theories and methods on Sufism, and, more broadly, the category of mysticism"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BP189
SN 9781138328334
SN 9781032079059
K1 Sufism
K1 Mysticism : Islam