The Nature of Sufism

An Ontological Reading of the Mystical in Islam

Milad Milani

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Regional studies; Religion: general; Sufism & Islamic mysticism

Series: Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series

This book explores how Sufis approach their faith as Muslims, upholding an Islamic worldview, but going about making sense of their religion through the world in which they exist, often in unexpected ways. Using a phenomenological approach, the book examines Sufism as lived experience within the Muslim lifeworld, focusing on the Muslim experience of Islamic history. It draws on selected case studies ranging from classic Sufism to Sufism in the contemporary era mainly taken from biographical and hagiographical data, manuscript texts, and treatises. In this way, it provides a revisionist approach to theories and methods on Sufism, and, more broadly, the category of mysticism.

By: Milad Milani
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781032079059
ISBN 10: 1032079053
Series: Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 ‘Introduction’ to Sufism 2 The Journey Through Islam: a phenomenological analysis of the Sufi tariqa and the experience of the ‘master’ 3 ‘Being Sufi’ 4 Jesus as Sign 5 Absent Christ, present God 6 Break with the past: transgressing restrictions of the category and scholarship on ‘mysticism’ 7 Conclusion: The ontological question for Sufism

Milad Milani is a Senior Lecturer in religious studies at Western Sydney University.

Reviews for The Nature of Sufism: An Ontological Reading of the Mystical in Islam

The Nature of Sufism is a unique contribution to an old discussion. In bringing Heidegger to bear on Sufism, Milad Milani has created something that is part history, part philosophy, and sometimes almost mystical-though what that term, too, might mean is questioned as well as clarified. This radical and fascinating book covers a lot of ground: Sufism and Heidegger, of course, but also Junayd and Ibn Taymiyya, Corbin and the Persianate, love, and even Jesus. Challenging and well worthwhile. -Mark Sedgwick, Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University, author of Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age (2016), and co-editor of Global Sufism: Boundaries, Narratives and Practices(2019).