TY  - BOOK
AU  - Milani,Milad
TI  - The nature of Sufism: an ontological reading of the mystical in Islam 
T2  - Routledge religion in contemporary Asia series
SN  - 9781032079059
AV  - BP189 
U1  - 297.4 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Islam
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- 1. 'Introduction' to Sufism -- 2. The Journey Through Islam: a phenomenological analysis of the Sufi tariqa and the  experience of the 'master' -- 3. 'Being Sufi' -- 4. Jesus as Sign -- 5. Absent Christ, present God -- 6. Break with the past: transgressing restrictions of the category and scholarship on  'mysticism' -- 7. Conclusion: The ontological question for Sufism -- Index
N2  - "This book explores how Sufis approach their faith as Muslims, upholding an Islamic worldview, but going about making sense of their religion through the world in which they exist, often in unexpected ways. Using a phenomenological approach, the book examines Sufism as lived experience within the Muslim lifeworld, focusing on the Muslim experience of Islamic history. It draws on selected case studies ranging from classic Sufism to Sufism in the contemporary era mainly taken from biographical and hagiographical data, manuscript texts and treatises. In this way, it provides a revisionist approach to theories and methods on Sufism, and, more broadly, the category of mysticism"--
ER  -