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Ruby in the dust poetry and history in Padmâvat by the South-Asian Sufi poet Muhammad Jâyasî / by Bruijn, Thomas de

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Between mysticism and philosophy Sufi language of religious experience in Judah Ha-Levi's Kuzari / by Lobel, Diana

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The mystical vision of existence in classical Islam the Qur'ānic hermeneutics of the Ṣūfī Sahl At-Tustarī (d. 283/896) / by Böwering, Gerhard, 1939-

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Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century /

Table of Contents: “…Islamic law in the modern world : Sufi networks, hospitality, and translocal inclusivity /…”
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The Dervishes of the North : Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada / by Xavier, Merin Shobhana

Table of Contents: “…Situating the Study of Sufism in Canada -- Early Sufi Communities in Canada -- Sama, Shab-i arus, and Rituals of Remembrance -- The Politics of Consuming Popular and Cultural Expressions of Rumi -- Gender Dynamics in Sufi Rituals, Praxis, and Authority.…”
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The Seljuks of Anatolia : court and society in the medieval Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Dynastic identity and the great Seljuk inheritance -- The royal household -- Sufis at court and in society.…”
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Dreams and visions in Islamic societies

Table of Contents: “…Dreams in biographical, historical, theological, poetical, and oral narratives, and on the internet -- pt. 2. Dreams in Sufi literature.…”
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Sufism and the 'modern' in Islam

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Modalities of Sufi organization and practices in modern society -- pt. 2. …”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy / by Kefeli, Agnès Nilüfer

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy / by Kefeli, Agnès Nilüfer

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

by Kefeli, Agnes

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia : Comparative Perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Sufis and saṅgha in motion : toward a comparative study of religious orders and networks in southern Asia / Anne M. …”
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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan : conquest, acculturation and Islamization / Arezou Azad -- Women and religious patronage in the Timurid Empire / Nushin Arbabzadah -- The rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandi Sufis in Timurid Herat / Jürgen Paul -- Earning a living : promoting Islamic culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / R.D. …”
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Divine fertility : the continuity in transformation of an ideology of sacred kinship in Northeast Africa / by Mire, Sada, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Aims, structure, concepts, terminology, the movement of peoples and ideas -- Sacred landscapes, materiality and fertility rituals -- Material culture, fertility and sacrifice at the sacred site of Aw-Barkhadle -- In the name of divine kinship: the fertility bath, Bun Shuruur, Baanshada Dumarka, Zar, Sitaat, Wagar, Gudnid Fircooni (FGM) Waqlaal and Istunka -- Sacred fertility of a divine kinship ideology: indigenous institutions and Sufi Islam in the Horn of Africa -- An ideology of fertility in the archaeology of the Horn of Africa: Aw-Barkhadle and beyond -- Conclusions: Divine fertility of a sacred kinship ideology.…”
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Remaking Muslim politics pluralism, contestation, democratization /

Table of Contents: “…Peletz -- Muslim democrats and Islamist violence in post-Soeharto Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner -- Sufis and Salafis : the political discourse of transnational Islam / Peter Mandaville -- Pluralism and normativity in French Islamic reasoning / John R. …”
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Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /

Table of Contents: “…Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.…”
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Cities and Islamisms : on the politics and production of the built environment /

Table of Contents: “…Performing Algerian Islam in Bouteflika's policies: Reflections from the nationalization of Sufi zawiya / Valentina Fedele -- 4. Contesting Vision of Modernity? …”
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The rise of political Islam in Turkey by Rabasa, Angel

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Politics and Religion in Turkey -- Structure of the report -- The Islamic landscape in Turkey -- Religion, ethnicity and politics -- The management of Islam -- Sufi brotherhoods -- Religious movements -- Islamic foundations -- Islamic schools -- Shiites and Alevis -- Turkish attitudes toward religion -- The violent fringe -- Turks in Europe -- The rise of political Islam in Turkey -- The impact of the Kemalist revolution -- The advent of multi-party democracy -- The "Turkish-Islamic synthesis" -- The impact of the ZAL reforms -- The rise of the religious right -- Political Islam in power : the welfare interlude -- The impact of the February 28 process -- The AKP in power -- The reconfiguration of Turkish politics -- The AKP : a new synthesis or Islamism in disguise? …”
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Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Bruce Elder -- Wax figures and anatomical models : the body unveiled -- Uneasy associations : wax bodies outside the canon / Catherine Heard -- What lies beneath : the female anatomy flap revealed / Linda Carreiro -- Buddhist and Sufi texts : deception and disguise in the spiritual journey -- Why must God show himself in disguise? …”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

Table of Contents: “…Merchants and Ulama: Markadugu and MoriduguSufi-Scholars and Zawiya; The Revolutionary Countryside; Counterrevolution: The Zawiya as Fandugu; Conclusion; References; 2 Making Development through Rural Initiative "Unthinkable": Tanzania in the Time of Ujamaa; Introduction; Defining a Narrative of State-Led Development; What Was Missing from the State-Centered Narrative of Ujamaa Development; A Past Ignored Creates Frustration; Conclusion; References; 3 Racialization and the Historical Production of Contemporary Land Rights Inequalities in Upland Northern Thailand; Introduction…”
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