The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325, by Nathan Hofer

The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173-1325, by Nathan Hofer, (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015), 320 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7486-9421-1, £70.00 (hb) (First paragraph) Sufism as we know it today “ the Sufism of organized brotherhoods and the veneration of saints “ was formed in the later Middle Ages, specifically during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It was then that Sufism became also a mass movement, not on the margins of the religious and social landscape of medieval Muslim societies but capturing a central role in the experiences of Islam for a majority. In the context of Egypt and Syria, it was under the Ayyūbids and the early Mamlūks that Sufism truly became popular

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