Traditions of Sufism in Islam

Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Scholars: the Ulama: 1. Some observations on the development of the Ottoman learned Hierarchy. 2. The Ottoman Ulama and the Tanzimat. 3. The religious establishment in Husainid Tunisia. 4. The Moroccan Ulama, 1860-1912: an introduction. 5. Profile of a nineteenth-century Moroccan scholar. 6. The Ulama of Cairo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 7. Nonideological responses of the Egyptian Ulama to modernization. 8. The roots of the Ulama\'s power in modern Iran. 9. The oppositional role of the Ulama in twentieth-century Iran. 10. Activism of the Ulama in Pakistan. II. Saints and Sufis: popular religious institutions: 11. A short history of the Khalwati order of dervishes. 12. Doctor and saint. 13. The Hamadsha. 14. Religious symbolism and social change: the drama of Husain. 15. Mahdis, Walis, and new men in the Sudan. 16. Variation in religious observance among Islamic women.

"There is also interesting discussion of the differences between the Mujadid (Renovators or reformers) who appears, according to the traditions of Islamic orthodoxy on the eve of every century and one who is born in the end of millienuem. There have been many Sufis in India during the Moghul rule and there have been many Sufis Kashmir also.

The book introduces the reader to the traditions of Sufism in Islam in very simple way. Sufis had acquired a great status on the Muslim community in India inspite of the fact that the conservative Muslims never approved the Sufis." (jacket)