| Description |
1 online resource (170 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Sufi Series |
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Routledge Sufi series.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The geographical setting of Popular Sufism in Eastern Europe; 2 Sufi brotherhoods and the impact of Sufism on national identity within the Balkan Muslim communities; 3 The Krstjani and the Bosnjaks: Sufi orders and the abiding memory of the Bosnian Church; 4 Islamic Antinomianism, 'heterodoxy' and Persian Monism in the literature and the thought of the Albanians: The Sufi inspirations of Naim Frashëri, Albania's greatest poet |
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5 Popular Sufism in Bulgaria and Macedonia -- Demir Baba Akyazili, the Kizilbash saints of Deli Orman and the neo-Malamiyya of Muhammad Nur al-'Arabi6 'The heterodox hero', the mythical Sari Saltik and his many tombs in Albanian and in Tatar lands; 7 The popular expression of the dhikr amongst the Sufi communities of Eastern Europe; 8 The Bektashiyya brotherhood, its village communities, and inter-religious tensions along the border between Albania and Greek Epirus, at the beginning of the twe |
| Summary |
This is a detailed description of the various Sufi orders and movements which entered into the Balkans, into the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Eastern Europe following the Ottoman conquests |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Muslims -- Europe, Eastern
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Sufism -- Europe, Eastern
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Muslims
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Sufism
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Eastern Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203961223 |
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0203961226 |
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1280727667 |
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9781280727665 |
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