TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norris,H.T.
TI  - Popular Sufism in Eastern Europe: Sufi brotherhoods and the dialogue with Christianity and 'heterodoxy' 
T2  - Routledge Sufi series
SN  - 9780415665148 (pbk.) :
AV  - BP188.8.E9 N67 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Islamic sects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christianity and other religions
N1  - 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
ER  -