:orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Itzchak Weismann
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY
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: Routledge
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xv, 208 p.
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: ill
SERIES
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(Routledge Sufi series)
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Includes Hypertext
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Bibliography
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.