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Clarke, Peter B. West Africa and Islam: A Study of Religious Devel-
opment from the Eighth to the Twentieth Century. London,
1982.
Clayer, Nathalie. Mystiques, état et société: Les halvetis dans l’aire
balkanique de la fin du Xve siècle à nos jours. Leiden, Nether-
lands, 1994.
Cornell, Rkia Elaroui, ed. and trans. Early Sufi Women. Louisville,
Ky., 1993. A translation of the earliest collection of the vitae
of S:u ̄f ̄ı women, by al-Sulam ̄ı (d. 1021), with introduction
on the role of women in Sufism.
Cornell, Vincent. Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Mo-
roccan Sufism. Austin, Tex., 1998.
DeWeese, Devin. Islamization and Native Religion of the Golden
Horde. University Park, Pa., 1994. Describes the role of the
Yasawiyya in the Islamization of the Central Asian steppes.
Ernst, Carl W. Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at
a South Asian Sufi Center. Albany, N.Y., 1992. A study of the
role of Sufism and S:u ̄f ̄ı shrines in the Deccan and their influ-
ence on Indian political history and conversion to Islam,
based upon the Chishtis of Khulda ̄ba ̄d.
Ewing, Katherine Pratt. Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psycho-
analysis, and Islam. Durham, N.C., 1997. Explores the post-
colonial construction of S:u ̄f ̄ı identity, particularly the figure
of the P ̄ır and the Qalandar, on the basis of fieldwork done
in Lahore, Pakistan.
Gilsenan, Michael D. Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt: An Essay
in the Sociology of Religion. Oxford, 1973.
Gramlich, Richard. Die schiitischen Derwischorden Persiens. 3 vols.
Wiesbaden, 1965–1981.
Gramlich, Richard. Die Wunder der Freunde Gottes: Theologien
und Erscheinungsformen des islamischen Heiligenwunders.
Stuttgart, 1987.
Gramlich, Richard. Weltverzicht: Grundlagen und Weisen islamis-
cher Askese. Wiesbaden, 1997.
Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The Venture of Islam. Chicago, 1974.
Hoffman, Valerie. Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt.
Columbia, S.C., 1995. Includes an examination of the role
of women and a comparison with elements of spirituality
shared in common with Coptic Christianity.
Huda, Qamar-ul. Striving for Divine Union: Spiritual Exercises of
Suhraward ̄ı Su ̄f ̄ıs. London, 2003.
Johansen, Julian. Sufism and Islamic Reform in Egypt: The Battle
for Islamic Tradition. Oxford, 1996. Includes translations of
the Egyptian government’s 1976 and 1978 ordinances con-
cerning the S:u ̄f ̄ı orders.
Jong, F. de. Turuq and Turuq-Linked Institutions in Nineteenth
Century Egypt. Leiden, 1978.
Jong. F. de, and Bernd Radtke, eds. Islamic Mysticism Contested:
Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics. Leiden,
1999.
Karamustafa, Ahmet. God’s Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the
Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200–1550. Salt Lake City, Ut.,



  1. Discusses the history and practices of Qalandars and
    non-affiliated S:u ̄f ̄ıs and dervishes.
    Karrar, Ali Salih. The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan. Evanston,
    Ill., 1992.
    Lapidus, Ira. Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge,
    Mass., 1967.


Lewis, Franklin. Rumi: Past and Present, East and West. Oxford,


  1. Chapter 10 in particular deals with the history of the
    Mevlevi order.
    Lewisohn, Leonard, ed. The Heritage of Sufism. 3 vols., 2d ed. Ox-
    ford, 1999. A number of articles in these volumes discuss in-
    dividual brotherhoods in the Persianate world.
    Lifchez, Raymond, ed. The Dervish Lodge: Architecture, Art, and
    Sufism in Ottoman Turkey. Berkeley, Calif., 1992. An excel-
    lent study of the physical structures maintained by various
    S:u ̄f ̄ı organizations in Anatolia and their functions.
    Martin, Bradford G. Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth Century
    Africa. Cambridge, U.K., 1976.
    Massignon, Louis. Essai sur les origines de lexique technique de la
    mystique musulmane. 3d ed. Paris, 1968.
    McChesney, R. D. Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in
    the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480–1889. Princeton, N.J.,


  2. Naguib al-Attas, Syed. Some Aspects of Sufism as Understood and
    Practised among the Malays. Singapore, 1963.
    Netton, Ian Richard. Sufi Ritual: The Parallel Universe. Rich-
    mond, U.K., 2000.
    O’Fahey, Rex. Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi
    Tradition. Evanston, Ill., 1990.
    Pinto, Desiderio. Piri-Muridi Relationship: A Study of the Niza-
    muddin Dargah. New Delhi, 1995.
    Popovic, Alexandre, and Gilles Veinstein, eds. Les ordres mystiques
    dans l’Islam: Cheminements et situation actuelle. Paris, 1986.
    Qureshi, Regula. Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context,
    and Meaning in Qawwali. Cambridge, U.K., 1986; reprint
    Chicago, 1995.
    Raudavere, Catharina. The Book and the Roses: Sufi Women, Visi-
    bility, and Zikir in Contemporary Istanbul. Istanbul, 2002.
    Rizvi, Saiyid A. A. A History of Sufism in India. 2 vols. New Delhi,




  3. Schimmel, Annemarie. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill,
    N.C., 1975.
    Schimmel, Annemarie. My Soul Is a Woman: The Feminine in
    Islam. Translated by Susan Ray. New York, 1997.
    Sirriyeh, Elizabeth. Sufis and Anti-Sufis: The Defence, Rethinking,
    and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World. Richmond,
    U.K., 1999. A geographically wide-ranging study of Muslim
    and colonial European reactions to popular Sufism as well
    as the reshaping of Sufism from the eighteenth century to the
    twenty-first century.
    Taylor, Christopher. In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziya ̄ra and
    the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt. Lei-
    den, 1999. Discusses the role of visitation of saint’s tombs
    in Egypt and its historical connection with the rise of the
    t:ar ̄ıqahs.
    Viko⁄r, Knut. Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge: Muh:ammad b.
    EAl ̄ı al-Sanu ̄s ̄ı and His Brotherhood. London, 1995.
    Werbner, Pnina, and Helene Basu. Embodying Charisma: Moder-
    nity, Locality, and Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults. Lon-
    don, 1998. Analyzes the rituals of local S:u ̄f ̄ı shrines and cen-
    ters in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
    Wolper, Ethel Sara. Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transforma-
    tion of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia. University Park,
    Pa., 2003.




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