Sufis and Scholars of the Sea

Sufis and Scholars of the Sea
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9781134370139
ISBN-13 : 113437013X
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Synopsis Sufis and Scholars of the Sea by : Anne Bang

Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. Originating in the South-Yemeni region of Hadramawt, the Alawi tariqa mainly spread along the coast of the Indian Ocean. The Alawis are here portrayed as one of many cultural mediators in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious Indian Ocean world in the era of European colonialism.

Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940)

Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940)
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9789004276543
ISBN-13 : 9004276548
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940) by : Anne K. Bang

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.

Sufis and Scholars of the Sea

Sufis and Scholars of the Sea
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0203354699
ISBN-13 : 9780203354698
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Sufis and Scholars of the Sea by : Anne K. Bang

Sea Without Shore

Sea Without Shore
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Publisher : Sunna Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9957231901
ISBN-13 : 9789957231903
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Sea Without Shore by : Noah Ha Mim Keller

Monsoon Islam

Monsoon Islam
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9781108342698
ISBN-13 : 1108342698
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Synopsis Monsoon Islam by : Sebastian R. Prange

Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle, and defined by the reality of Muslims living within non-Muslim societies. Focusing on India's Malabar Coast, the much-fabled 'land of pepper', Prange provides a case study of how Monsoon Islam developed in response to concrete economic, socio-religious, and political challenges. Because communities of Muslim merchants across the Indian Ocean were part of shared commercial, scholarly, and political networks, developments on the Malabar Coast illustrate a broader, trans-oceanic history of the evolution of Islam across monsoon Asia. This history is told through four spaces that are examined in their physical manifestations as well as symbolic meanings: the Port, the Mosque, the Palace, and the Sea.

Islamic Law of the Sea

Islamic Law of the Sea
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781108481458
ISBN-13 : 1108481450
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Islamic Law of the Sea by : Hassan S. Khalilieh

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

Deep Knowledge

Deep Knowledge
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9780271087610
ISBN-13 : 0271087617
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Deep Knowledge by : Oludamini Ogunnaike

This book is an in-depth, comparative study of two of the most popular and influential intellectual and spiritual traditions of West Africa: Tijani Sufism and Ifa. Employing a unique methodological approach that thinks with and from—rather than merely about—these traditions, Oludamini Ogunnaike argues that they contain sophisticated epistemologies that provide practitioners with a comprehensive worldview and a way of crafting a meaningful life. Using theories belonging to the traditions themselves as well as contemporary oral and textual sources, Ogunnaike examines how both Sufism and Ifa answer the questions of what knowledge is, how it is acquired, and how it is verified. Or, more simply: What do you know? How did you come to know it? How do you know that you know? After analyzing Ifa and Sufism separately and on their own terms, the book compares them to each other and to certain features of academic theories of knowledge. By analyzing Sufism from the perspective of Ifa, Ifa from the perspective of Sufism, and the contemporary academy from the perspective of both, this book invites scholars to inhabit these seemingly “foreign” intellectual traditions as valid and viable perspectives on knowledge, metaphysics, psychology, and ritual practice. Unprecedented and innovative, Deep Knowledge makes a significant contribution to cross-cultural philosophy, African philosophy, religious studies, and Islamic studies. Its singular approach advances our understanding of the philosophical bases underlying these two African traditions and lays the groundwork for future study.

A Sea of Debt

A Sea of Debt
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781107155657
ISBN-13 : 1107155657
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis A Sea of Debt by : Fahad Ahmad Bishara

An innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, charting the emergence of a trans-oceanic contractual culture.

Sufi Institutions

Sufi Institutions
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : 9789004392601
ISBN-13 : 9004392602
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Synopsis Sufi Institutions by : Alexandre Papas

This volume describes the social and practical aspects of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) across centuries and geographical regions. Its authors seek to transcend ethereal, essentialist and “spiritualizing” approaches to Sufism, on the one hand, and purely pragmatic and materialistic explanations of its origins and history, on the other. Covering five topics (Sufism’s economy, social role of Sufis, Sufi spaces, politics, and organization), the volume shows that mystics have been active socio-religious agents who could skillfully adjust to the conditions of their time and place, while also managing to forge an alternative way of living, worshiping and thinking. Basing themselves on the most recent research on Sufi institutions, the contributors to this volume substantially expand our understanding of the vicissitudes of Sufism by paying special attention to its organizational and economic dimensions, as well as complex and often ambivalent relations between Sufis and the societies in which they played a wide variety of important and sometimes critical roles. Contributors are Mehran Afshari, Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Semih Ceyhan, Rachida Chih, Nathalie Clayer, David Cook, Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Daphna Ephrat, Peyvand Firouzeh, Nathan Hofer, Hussain Ahmad Khan, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Richard McGregor, Ahmet Yaşar Ocak, Alexandre Papas, Luca Patrizi, Paulo G. Pinto, Adam Sabra, Mark Sedgwick, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Knut S. Vikør and Neguin Yavari

Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism

Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism
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Publisher : Tughra Books
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 1932099239
ISBN-13 : 9781932099232
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism by : Fethullah Gülen

The origin of Sufism -- Self criticism; Reflection; Privacy and seclusion; Heart; Hope or expectation; Asceticism. People follow the Sufi path when they sense that Islam has a deeper dimension. The resulting self-purification leads to this inner dimension of Islamic rituals, a deeper understanding of the Divine acts, and a greater knowledge and love of Him. After this, God draws the novice to Himself. With the help of a spiritual guide, the novice begins the life-long journey back to God. This continual process of spiritual development along a path of the innate human poverty, helplessness, and powerlessness before God is undertaken in the knowledge that everything comes from God. Each novice does what is necessary to grow spiritually, and God bestows the appropriate blessings and stations. "The highest aim of creation and its most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God. The most radiant happiness and sweetest bounty for jinn and humanity is love of God contained within the knowledge of God; the purest joy for the human spirit and the purest delight for the human heart is spiritual ecstasy contained within the love of God. Indeed, all true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God." And Sufism is the school where people can realise the highest aim of creation.