Megan H. Reid, Law and Piety in Medieval Islam (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Pp. 264. $99.00 cloth, $79.00 e-book
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 646-649
ISSN: 1471-6380
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In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 646-649
ISSN: 1471-6380
In: Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 452-453
ISSN: 1548-226X
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 751-752
ISSN: 1471-6380
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 673-687
ISSN: 1471-6380
These books demonstrate in various ways the momentous progress achieved in the study of Sufism over the past three decades while pointing to lacunae and problems that remain. Until the 1970s, Western scholarship on Sufism was shaped by a set of paradigms that originated among orientalists, travelers, colonial officials, and modernist Muslims in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Scholars privileged the mystical insights and poetry of great Sufi masters and championed personal and unmediated religious forms. Sufism's devotional and corporate aspects were unappreciated, as were the Sufi practitioners, especially ragged dervishes and worshippers at saints' tombs. It was common to separate such practitioners and practices from "genuine" mysticism through a schema of elite versus popular religion. A related paradigm of decline cast later Sufi practice as a corruption of the classical mystical tradition and a culprit in a wider decline of Muslim civilization, while yet another focused on the Sufi brotherhoods as networks of anticolonial Muslim activism and hence purveyors of "fanaticism."
In: Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 73-78