Su sm in Western Contexts

Editors: Marcia K. Hermansen and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh

Su sm in Western Contexts explores both historical trajectories and

multiple contemporary manifestations of Islamic mystical movements,
ideas, and practices in diverse European, North and South American
countries, as well as in Australia – all traditionally non-Muslim
regions of the “global Westâ€฀. From early French and British
colonial administrators who admired Persian poetry to nineteenth-
century American transcendentalists, followed by South Asian and
Middle Eastern immigrant Su guides and their movements, expansive
and many-faceted expressions of Su sm such as its role in Western
esotericism, female whirling dervishes and Rumi cafes, and new
articulations in cyberspace, are traced and analyzed by international
Language: English
experts in the eld.
Publisher: Brill

Series:
Handbook of Oriental
Studies. Section 1 The
Near and Middle East,
Volume: 154/3
Handbook of Su Studies,
Volume: 154/3
E-Book (PDF)
Publication: 03 Jul 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-39262-5
USD Â $299.00

Hardback
Publication: 04 Jul 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-38983-0
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Subjects
Middle East and
Islamic Studies
Mysticism & Su sm
Religion
Contemporary Islam
Sociology &
Anthropology
Biographical Note

Marcia K. Hermansen is Professor of Theology and Director of the

Islamic World Studies program at Loyola University Chicago. Her
publications on Su sm include Varieties of American Su sm (2021) as
well as many studies of South Asian Su sm and on Shah Wali Allah of
Delhi.

Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh is a habilitated lecturer of Islamic Studies at the

University of Erfurt, Germany. His publications on Su sm and
comparative mysticism include Practical Mysticism in Islam and
Christianity (Routledge, 2016) and Su sm East and West (Brill, 2019; co-
edited with Jamal Malik).

Readership

Academics, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students

interested in Islamic mysticism in the modern period, Su sm in the
global West, and New Age and alternative religions. Relevant subject
areas include religious/Islamic studies, theology, sociology,
anthropology, and cultural studies.

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