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In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices and religious leaders. On the East African coast, the orders were both a vehicle for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. The impact of Sufism on local communities is here traced geographically as a ripple reaching beyond the Swahili cultural zone southwards to Mozambique, Madagascar and Cape Town. Through an investigation of the texts, ritual practices and scholarly networks that went alongside Sufi expansion, this book places religious change in the western Indian Ocean within the wider framework of Islamic reform.

Sufism --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- History. --- Islam --- Soufisme --- Histoire

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This book studies the veneration practices and rituals of the Muslim saints. It outlines principal trends of the main Sufi orders in India, the profiles and teachings of the famous and less known saints, and the development of pilgrimage to their tombs in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A detailed discussion of the interaction of the Hindu mystic tradition and Sufism shows the polarity between the rigidity of the orthodox and the flexibility of the popular Islam in South Asia.

Muslim saints --- Sufism --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Islamic saints --- Saints, Muslim --- Sufi saints --- Saints --- History. --- Islam

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The Sufi phenomenon is not easy to sum up or define. This book is concerned primarily with the Persian mystics and looks at the history of the S?fi movement, the mystical states, fundamentals of Persian mysticism and S?fi practices.

Mysticism --- Sufism. --- Sofism --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Islam

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In the 12th - 14th centuries, Sufism 'Islamic mysticism' became extraordinarily popular across Egypt. Elites and non-elites, rulers and ruled, the wealthy and the poor, even Jews, all embraced a variety of Sufi ideas and practices. This book is the first systematic investigation of how and why this popularisation occurred. It surveys several Sufi groups, from different regions of Egypt, and details how each of them promulgated, performed, and popularised their specific Sufi doctrines and practices. This popularisation would have a profound impact on the Egyptian religious landscape and on the subsequent history of Islam more broadly.

Sufism --- Mysticism --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Sofism --- History --- Islam --- Egypt --- History.

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Figure emblématique du monde spirituel ottoman, le derviche tourneur fascine les Occidentaux depuis des siècles. Si la doctrine de la Mevleviye, cette confrérie soufie fondée par Rumi au xiiie siècle, a fait l’objet de nombreux travaux érudits, la vie des derviches, leurs pratiques, leurs rituels quotidiens, demeurent encore méconnus. S’appuyant sur le parcours et l’œuvre d’Ankaravî (mort en 1631), principal disciple de Rumi, cette étude analyse le soufisme à un moment où le pouvoir ottoman cherche parmi les confréries des responsables à sa décadence. Ecrivain célèbre, auteur de textes savants et mystiques dont l’influence perdure, cheikh du tekke de Galata à Istanbul, Ankaravî a rédigé le Minhâc’ül-fukara, maître-livre de la confrérie, à la fois défense des derviches et véritable manuel initiatique. Alberto Fabio Ambrosio présente, traduit et analyse ici l’ensemble des textes qui permettent de comprendre les pratiques des derviches tourneurs dans leurs formes et leurs structures. Une initiation lumineuse à l’histoire et à la symbolique de la voie mevlevîe.

Dervishes. --- Sufism. --- Dance --- Religious aspects. --- Dancing (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Religious dance --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Sufism --- Islam --- Empire ottoman --- rituel --- conférie --- soufisme