Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Auteur de Sufism: The Formative Period
A propos de l'auteur
Ahmet T. Karamustafa is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
Œuvres de Ahmet T. Karamustafa
God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200-1550 (1994) 32 exemplaires
Tanrinin Kuraltanimaz Kullari - Islam Dunyasinda Dervis Topluluklari (1200-1550) (2007) 7 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1956-11-05
- Sexe
- male
- Études
- McGill University (Islamic Studies)
- Professions
- professor (history and religions)
- Organisations
- Washington University, St Louis
University of Maryland
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 75
- Popularité
- #235,804
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
- Langues
- 1
The book is highly modular, composed of six chapters, each of which contains two or three subchapters that could stand on their own. All together, however, they do articulate and illustrate Karamustafa's thesis that Sufism per se began as a form of renunciant piety among a network of upper-middle-class Iraqis, and developed at first through hybridization with neighboring mystical schools and customs. Throughout this period there was tension and exchange between conformists and antinomians, traditionalists and scholars.
The development of dedicated Sufi communities was succeeded by a synergy between the popular reverence of saints and the development of the role of the sheik as spiritual director. Eventually, the robust complex of traditions and institutions of Sufism became useful and/or threatening to the political establishment. Later trends in spiritual mendicancy created the cultural conditions for the recovery and permanent encoding of the germinal paradoxes underlying the earliest Sufi piety.
This is a rewarding read for those interested in early Islam, and in the development of religious forms generally, especially the social and cultural dimensions of mysticism.… (plus d'informations)