Contemplating Sufism - Khairudin Aljunied

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Auteur(s) : Khairudin Aljunied

Editeur : Wiley

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/02/2025

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 224.0

ISBN : 9781394270453

Résumé :

Acknowledgements viii

Abbreviations xi

Glossary xii

List of Photos xvi

Timeline of Sufism in Southeast Asia xviii

Introduction: A Dialogical Tradition 1

Chapter 1 Feelings 18

Chapter 2 Miracles 50

Chapter 3 Institutions 77

Chapter 4 Struggles 107

Chapter 5 Politics 134

Epilogue: Contemplating Sufism 165

Bibliography 171

Index 196

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Biographie:

KHAIRUDIN ALJUNIED is a Senior Fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, the University of Brunei Darussalam, and the University of Malaya. Dr. Aljunied's research focuses on the connections between Southeast Asia and Global Islam. He has published 13 books and more than 30 internationally refereed articles....

Sommaire:

Exploring Sufi sites and seminaries, Professor Aljunied vividly describes how a dialogic tradition facilitated the formation of a Sufi habitus and life form across Muslim-majority Southeast Asia. The work deftly articulates the synergies between Sufis and the wider public, showing how such dynamics infused increasingly powerful mediums and popular forms of mass mobilization during the colonial and post-colonial eras.
-ARMANDO SALVATORE, Barbara and Patrick Keenan Chair in Interfaith Studies, McGill University, Canada

At once personal and scholarly, this book shows how Sufis were engaged in dual dialogues-with themselves and their surroundings-that made them agents of social change in Southeast Asia's past and present alike. Paying equal attention to devotion and miracles, and no less, the political and martial aspects of Sufi activism, Aljunied explains why Islam remains so important in the region today.
-NILE GREEN, Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, University of California, Los Angeles

Splendidly written and accessible, Khairudin Aljunied tells a lively and engaging story of Muslim piety, metaphysics, and politics as an integral part of Islamic thought and practice in Southeast Asia. Readers will gain a profound and nuanced understanding of Islam in a region with the world's largest Muslim population. A compelling read!
-EBRAHIM MOOSA, Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies, University of Notre Dame, USA

Contemplating Sufism employs a unique contemplative histories methodology to uncover how and why Sufis employed creative mediums to embed and sustain their importance in the region for many centuries. Recognizing Sufism as a dialogical tradition, Khairudin Aljunied reveals the emotional, institutional, and political forces that continue to influence Sufi thought and practices.

Providing an accessible and coherent synthesis of the latest scholarship in the field, this innovative study integrates data from around the world, vignettes and anecdotes of Southeast Asian Sufism, and the author's ethnographic observations and personal experiences. Lively and engaging chapters contain vivid descriptions and rich analyses of the texts, ideas, people, practices, and institutions that aided in the development of Sufism-and transformed Southeast Asia's ideological, cultural, political, and social landscapes.

Illustrating the inventiveness and energy of the Sufis, Contemplating Sufism: Dialogue and Tradition across Southeast Asia is an excellent textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses on Sufism and a valuable resource for academics, scholars, and general readers with an interest in the mystical dimension of Islam in the non-Arab world....