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Lloyd Ridgeon

Författare till The Cambridge Companion to Sufism

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Lloyd Ridgeon is senior lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Inkluderar namnet: Lloyd V. J. Ridgeon

Verk av Lloyd Ridgeon

Major World Religions (2003) 10 exemplar
Routledge Handbook on Sufism (2020) 3 exemplar

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A collection of chapters written by different contributors -- all Western-trained academics, as far as I can tell -- about different aspects of Sufism. It is split into three sections: the earliest days, the medieval period, and modern Sufism. I especially enjoyed the chapters by Christopher Melchert ("Origins and Early Sufism"), Ahmet Karamustafa ("Antinomian Sufis"), Beverly Mack ("Nana Asma'u: Nineteenth-Century West African Sufi") and Knut Vikør ("Sufism and Colonialism"). Mack's and Vikør's chapters particularly grabbed my attention; I've really got to follow this up by reading more about Nana Asma'u specifically and West African Islam generally.… (mer)
 
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Verk
20
Medlemmar
77
Popularitet
#231,246
Betyg
½ 4.5
Recensioner
1
ISBN
52

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