TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karamustafa,Ahmet T.
TI  - Sufism: the formative period 
T2  - The new Edinburgh Islamic surveys
SN  - 9780748628971
AV  - BP188.5 .K37 2007eb
U1  - 297.409 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Sufism
KW  - History
KW  - Origin
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - Sufi
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Soefisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / Sufi
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Sufis of Baghdad -- Mystics outside Baghdad -- The spread of Baghdad Sufism -- Specialised Sufi literature -- Formation of communities -- Sainthood triumphant
N2  - This book is a comprehensive historical overview of the formative period of Sufism, the major mystical tradition in Islam, from the ninth to the twelfth century CE. Based on a fresh reading of the primary sources and integrating the findings of recent scholarship on the subject, the author presents a unified narrative of Sufisms historical development within an innovative analytical framework. Karamustafa gives a new account of the emergence of mystical currents in Islam during the ninth century and traces the rapid spread of Iraq-based Sufism to other regions of the Islamic world and its fus
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