Journey to God: Sufis and Dervishes in Islam

by Jürgen Wasim Frembgen

The Sufi tradition as the 'other face' and 'soft core' of Islam represents a particular creative and liberal facet characterized by tolerance, humanism and the accommodation of differences. That is why inspirational Sufi religiosity is inclusivist in nature. This book, which understands Sufi
Islam as being embedded in wider social and cultural contexts, surveys the whole of the Muslim world from Sub-Saharan Africa across the Middle East to Eastern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195476425
• ISBN13: 9780195476422
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.8"