Naqshbandi Mujaddidi Mysticism in the West
The Case of Azad Rasool and His Heirs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16901477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael E Asbury (Independent researcher, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 690 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13080690 |
| OpenAlex | W4288081139 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 51 |
The transfer of Sufism as a lived tradition to the Euro-American sphere, which first began in the early twentieth century, is a notable modern development that has been the subject of increasing academic interest in recent decades. Yet much of the literature on this topic to date has focused more on what has changed during the process of transfer, rather than on what has remained the same. It has also tended to prioritize context over mysticism. However, examining the main mystical doctrines and practices of the case study lineage of the Indian shaykh Azad Rasool (d. 2006), who from 1976 sought to introduce his teachings to Westerners arriving in India in search of spiritual fulfillment, in fact reveals substantial continuity with the early and pre-modern past. Such examination involved textual analysis of the primary sources of this lineage combined with multi-sited ethnography, comprised of participant observation as well as interviews, conducted primarily in Germany and the US, along with an excursion to India, among members of the two branches of this lineage between 2015 and 2020. It thus seems that shifting focus from context to mysticism itself, at least in some traditions, has the potential to also reveal much continuity in spite of changing contextual factors
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnography · Genealogy · Geography · Islam · Mysticism · Sociology · Sufism · Theology · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe
Secular Beats Spiritual
Sufism and the ‘Modern’ in Islam
Female Sufis in Syria
Joseph Hooker
Islamic Mysticism
Sufism
Contemplative Literature
Neo-Sufism Reconsidered
Practical Mysticism in Islam and Christianity
The Naqshbandiyya
The Nimatullahiya and Naqshbandiya Sufi Orders on the Internet
Sufism contra Shariah? Shāh Walī Allāh’s Metaphysics of Waḥdat al-Wujūd
Western Sufism
Islamic Movements of Europe
Sufis in Western Society
Asceticism, Fieldwork and Technologies of the Self in Latin American Catholic Monasticism
Comparative Mysticism and the Problem of Interpretation
The Transition from Asceticism to Mysticism at the Middle of the Ninth Century C.E
Der Briefwechsel zwischen Kāšānī und Simnānī über Wahdat al-Wuğūd
Stages Of Naqšbandī Sulūk In Šāh Abū Saʿīd Mučaddidī’S Hidāyat Al-Ṭālibīn
The Development of the Idea of Spirit in Islam
The Five Divine Presences
Notes on Ibn Al‐'arab?'s Influence in the Subcontinent
Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience
Shāh Walī Allāh's Theory of the Subtle Spiritual Centers (Laṭāʾif)
Annihilation in the Messenger of God
Sufism in the West
Sufism and Shari'a
The 'mystical' and the 'modern
Beyond the Veil of Form
Getting drunk with Abū Yazīd or staying sober with Junayd
Neo-Sufism
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |