:orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition
/ Itzchak Weismann
New York, NY
: Routledge
, 2007.
xv, 208 p.
: ill
(Routledge Sufi series)
Includes Hypertext
Bibliography
The core and contours of a sufi brotherhood -- Local beginnings in the oases of inner Asia (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries) -- Consolidation and expansion -- Sharia and renewal in the great empires (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) -- Inner rivalries and cooperation -- Scholarship and organization into the modern world (nineteenth century to the -- Present) -- The persistence of older traditions -- Modern transformations on the path (seventeenth to twentieth centuries) -- The contemporary situation.