| Saints and Sons: The Making and Remaking of the Rashīdi Aḥmadi Sufi Order, 1799-2000 Contributor(s): Sedgwick, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004140131 ISBN-13: 9789004140134 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $172.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2004 Annotation: This first history of the Rash?di A?madiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines anew paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeatingcycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the order, and the limiting effect on even the greatest shaykhs of their followers' expectations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Social Science | Islamic Studies - Religion | Islam - Sufi |
| Dewey: 297.48 |
| LCCN: 2004066042 |
| Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East an |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.46" W x 9.64" (1.40 lbs) 255 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the order, and the limiting effect on even the greatest shaykhs of their followers' expectations. |