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Popular Sufism in Eastern Europe : Sufi brotherhoods and the dialogue with Christianity and 'heterodoxy' / H.T. Norris.

By: Series: RoutledgeCurzon Sūfī series ; 20.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xiv, 155 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415665148 (pbk.) :
  • 0415665140 (pbk.) :
  • 0415297559 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780415297554 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415297567 (pbk.)
  • 9780415297561 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BP188.8.E9 N67 2006
Contents:
The geographical setting of popular Sufism in Eastern Europe -- Sufi brotherhoods and the impact of Sufism on national identity within the Balkan Muslim communities -- The Krstjani and the Bosnjaks : Sufi orders and the abiding memory of the Bosnian church -- Islamic antinomianism, 'heterodoxy' and Persian Monism in the literature and the thought of the Albanians : the Sufi inspirations of Naim Frasher̈i, Albania's greatest poet -- Popular Sufism in Bulgaria and Macedonia : Demir Baba Akyazili, the Kizilbash saints of Deli Orman and the neo-Malamiyya of Muhammad Nur al-ʻArabi -- 'The heterodox hero', the mythical Sari Saltik and his many tombs in Albanian and in Tatar lands -- The popular expression of dhikr amongst the Suki communities of Eastern Europe -- The Bektashiyya brotherhood, its village communities, and inter-religious tensions along the border between Albania and Greek Epirus, at the beginning of the twentieth century -- A future role for Balkan Sufism and the revival of Popular Sufism among the Tatars of the Crimean peninsula.

Originally published in hbk. in 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-151) and index.

The geographical setting of popular Sufism in Eastern Europe -- Sufi brotherhoods and the impact of Sufism on national identity within the Balkan Muslim communities -- The Krstjani and the Bosnjaks : Sufi orders and the abiding memory of the Bosnian church -- Islamic antinomianism, 'heterodoxy' and Persian Monism in the literature and the thought of the Albanians : the Sufi inspirations of Naim Frasher̈i, Albania's greatest poet -- Popular Sufism in Bulgaria and Macedonia : Demir Baba Akyazili, the Kizilbash saints of Deli Orman and the neo-Malamiyya of Muhammad Nur al-ʻArabi -- 'The heterodox hero', the mythical Sari Saltik and his many tombs in Albanian and in Tatar lands -- The popular expression of dhikr amongst the Suki communities of Eastern Europe -- The Bektashiyya brotherhood, its village communities, and inter-religious tensions along the border between Albania and Greek Epirus, at the beginning of the twentieth century -- A future role for Balkan Sufism and the revival of Popular Sufism among the Tatars of the Crimean peninsula.

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