Global Sufism

Sufism has become a global phenomenon. As a result, new forms have developed inside, and in particular outside, the Muslim world that differ from the traditional structures. Many scholars versed in classical Sufism have been dismissive of the modern and Western New Age ‘esotericism’ that parades under the name of Sufism with little or no regard for its Islamic basis. This collection of papers, however, takes these phenomena seriously as expressions of religiosity in the turbulent world of today, and discusses how modernity may or may not have changed its message and organization. However, it is in no way a uniform development of ‘globality’ that is displayed here. The features vary from the internationalization of orders that have a firm root in a ṭarīqa structure in the Muslim world, such as the Tijāniyya that spread from Africa while maintaining its link to africanité, to a Muslim religiosity that has

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