The Naqshbandiyya: orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition
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London ; New York
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Routledge
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Routledge Sufi series
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 189-200( and index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Itzchak Weismann
CONTENTS NOTE
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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