Varieties of American Sufism : Islam, Sufi orders, and authority in a time of transition /
From Rumi poetry and Sufi dancing or whirling, to expressions of Africanicity and the forging of transnational bonds to remote locations in Senegal, Sri Lanka, and Turkey, Varieties of American Sufism immerses the reader in diverse expressions of contemporary Sufi religiosity in the United States. I...
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Marcia Hermansen
- The Message in Our Time: Changing Faces and Identities of the Inayati Order in America / Geneviève Mercier-Dalphond
- The Golden Sufi Center: A Non-Islamic Branch of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya / William Rory Dickson
- The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship: Diverse Identities and Negotiated Spaces / Merin Shobhana Xavier
- A Shadhiliyya Sufi Order in America: Traditional Islam Meets American Hippies / Elliott Bazzano
- The Mevlevi Order of America / Simon Sorgenfrei
- From the Balkans to America: The Alami Tariqa in Upstate New York / Julianne Hazen
- 'There is an 'I' deeper than me': The Ansari Qadiri Rifa'i Tariqa and Transcendence in America / Melinda Krokus
- When the Divine Flood Reached New York: The Tijani Sufi Order among Black American Muslims in New York City / Rasul Miller
- Contributors
- Index.
