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Islamic mysticism: a short history

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ISBN	9004107177 (hbk.)
ISBN	9789004107175 (hbk.)
Author	Knysh, Alexander D.
Title	Islamic mysticism : a short history / by Alexander Knysh
Publisher	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000
Physical desc.	[xii], 358 p. ; 25 cm.
Series	Themes in Islamic studies 1
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-333) and indexes.
Contents	The beginnings -- Asceticism and mysticism in western provinces: Syria and Egypt -- The Sufism of the Baghdad school -- The 'intoxicated mysticism of al-Bisṭāmī and al-Ḥallāj -- Ascetic and mystical movements in Baṣra and Khurāsān -- The systemization of the Sufi tradition -- Sufism as literature and metaphysics: the grand masters of mystical poetry and philosophy -- Unity and diversity in Sufism: the rise of the Ṭāriqas -- Sufi institutions in regional contexts over the last six centuries -- Major Sufi concepts and institutions.
Subject	Sufism
	Sufism -- History
	Mysticism -- Islam -- History

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