{"product_id":"westernsufismfromtheabbasidstothenewage","title":"Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Sedgwick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9780199977642\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWestern Sufism is sometimes dismissed as a relatively recent \"new age\" phenomenon, but in this book, Mark Sedgwick argues that it actually has very deep roots, both in the Muslim world and in the West. In fact, although the first significant Western Sufi organization was not established until 1915, the first Western discussion of Sufism was printed in 1480, and Western interest in some of the ideas that are central to Sufi thought goes back to the thirteenth century. Sedgwick starts with the earliest origins of Western Sufism in late antique Neoplatonism and early Arab philosophy, and traces later origins in repeated intercultural transfers from the Muslim world to the West, in the thought of the European Renaissance and Enlightenment, and in the intellectual and religious ferment of the nineteenth century. He then follows the development of organized Sufism in the West from 1915 until 1968, the year in which the first Western Sufi order based on purely Islamic models was founded. Later developments in this and other orders are also covered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work shows the influence of these origins, of thought both familiar and less familiar: Neoplatonic emanationism, perennialism, pantheism, universalism and esotericism. Western Sufism is a product not of the New Age but of Islam, the ancient world, and centuries of Western religious and intellectual history. Sedgwick demonstrates that the phenomenon of Western Sufism draws on centuries of intercultural transfers and is part of a long-established relationship between Western thought and Islam. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I | Premodern Intercultural Transfers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Neoplatonism and Emanationism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Plotinus: The Key\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Emanation Explained\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Neoplatonism Spreads\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Islamic Emanationism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Arab Neoplatonism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The First Sufis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Sufi Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Jewish and Christian Emanationism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Jewish Neoplatonism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Jewish Sufism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Latin Emanationism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II | Imagining Sufism, 1480-1899\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Dervishes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Angels and Deviants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The View from France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Sufism as Mystical Theology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Deism and Pantheism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The prisca theologia in the Renaissance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Universalism: Guillaume Postel and the Jesuits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Deism Demonstrated by Arab and Turk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Pantheism and Anti-Exotericism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Universalist Sufism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Sufism as Esoteric Pantheism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Perennialism and Universalism in India\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Dabistan and After\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Dervishes Epicurean and Fanatical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Dervishes in Drama, Painting, and Verse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Fighting Dervishes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III | The Establishment of Sufism in the West, 1910-1933\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Transcendentalism, Theosophy, and Sufism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Transcendentalism and the Missouri Platonists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Theosophical Society and Carl-Henrik Bjerregaard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Ivan Agueli, the Western Sufi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Toward the One: Inayat Khan and the Sufi Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Inayat Khan Visits America\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Sufi Message is Spread\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Continuation of the Sufi Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Tradition and Consciousness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Rene Guenon and the Traditionalists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    George Gurdjieff and Consciousness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Early Years of John G. Bennett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart IV | The Development of Sufism in the New Age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Polarization\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Toward Islam\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Reorientation with Meher Baba\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Travels of John G. Bennett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Maryamiyya and the Oglala Sioux\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Idries Shah and the Sufi Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Shah and the Gurdjieff Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Shah’s Sufism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Followers and Opponents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Sufism Meets the New Age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Traditionalism and the New Age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Sufi Movement Conserved\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Sufi Sam in San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Vilayat and the Sufi Order International\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Fazal and the Mystical Warfare\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. Islamic Sufism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Ian Dallas and the Darqawiyya\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Ibn Arabi and Beshara\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    The Murabitun and Sufi Jihad\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    John G. Bennett at Sherborne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. 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