Sufism in the Modern World
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 34817
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Sufism, Islamic mysticism, Persian literature, mysticism and modernity, comparative mysticism, mystical theology, intellectual history, Muslims in the West
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the advent of the “modern” age, the main mystical trend of Islam, or Sufism, has become the target of new, multifaceted criticism in the Muslim World. The strong denunciation of the folk Sufism by Muslim purists and fundamentalists of the eighteenth century onwards—who consider mystical Islam to be a major part of, and reason for, the deviation from an imagined, pristine Islam—was followed by a fresh wave of Sufi antagonism by Muslim modernists and secular thinkers from the nineteenth century, who often regard Sufism as something belonging to the past, and thus incompatible with the present. Notwithstanding these dense and multifarious critiques, Sufism has remained an active part of Muslim life and culture in most Muslim-majority areas, even extending its presence to new spheres such as Europe and America. The purpose of this Special Issue is to analyze and examine different aspects of the presence of Sufism in the modern world, and to scrutinize the dynamics of its beliefs, practices, and institutions which have been developed since the dawn of the early modern period. The Issue also addresses the post-medieval conceptualizations of Sufism and the modern interpretations of Sufi tradition. Scholars from different fields such as history, religious/Islamic studies, sociology, anthropology, literature, theology, and philosophy are invited to approach the topic from their own specialism or from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Dr. Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sufism, Islamic mysticism
- modern period
- dynamics of religion
- Sufism in the West
- history of ideas
- Islamic reform
- spirituality
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