TY - BOOK ID - 2989449 TI - Sufism in the West AU - Malik, Jamal AU - Hinnells, John R. PY - 2017 SN - 0415274087 9780415274081 0415274079 9780415274074 1134479824 9786610518234 1280518235 0203087208 9780203087206 9781134479771 9781134479818 9781134479825 PB - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Sufism KW - 297*2 KW - Sofism KW - Mysticism KW - Soefisme KW - Islam KW - 297*2 Soefisme KW - Europe KW - North America KW - orders KW - bawa KW - muhaiyaddeen KW - movements KW - insan KW - kamil KW - hisham KW - kabbani KW - groups KW - abd-al-qr KW - Muslim diaspora KW - post-modern Western societies KW - political Islam KW - organisation KW - institutionalisation KW - recruitment KW - ritual KW - charisma KW - history UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2989449 AB - With the increasing Muslim diaspora in post-modern Western societies, Sufism - intellectually as well as sociologically - may eventually become Islam itself due to its versatile potential. Although Sufism has always provoked considerable interest in the West, no volume has so far been written which discusses this aspect of Islam in terms of how it is practised in Western societies. Bringing together leading international authorities to survey the history of Islamic mysticism in North America and Europe, this book elaborates the ideas and institutions which organize Sufism and folk-re ER -