This study into both reformism and mysticism demonstrates both that mystical rhetoric appeared regularly in supposedly anti-mystical modernist writing and that nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sufis actually addressed questions of intellectual and political reform in their writing, despite the common assertion that they were irrationally traditional and politically quietist.
| ISBN: | 9781463242374 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2021 |
| Author: | Robert Ames |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 213 pages |
| Series: | The Modern Muslim World |
| Genres: |
Middle Eastern history Islamic groups: Sufis Mysticism |