Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age Contemporary Women In The Quran

Women In The Quran

and René Descartes

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this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality

Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age Contemporary Women In The QuranOften dismissed as a recent "new age" trend, Western Sufism has much deeper roots, intertwined with both Islamic and Western traditions. In Western Sufism, Mark Sedgwick uncovers the profound historical connections that span from late antique Neoplatonism to contemporary Western interest in Sufism. Sedgwick begins with the earliest Western engagement with Sufi thought, tracing its origins back to 1480 and the intellectual exchanges that occurred as