Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Book Reviews

Book Reviews Book Reviews 211 A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450–1700 DINA LEGALL, 2005 [SUNY Series in Medieval Middle East History] Albany: State University of New York Press xii, 286 pp., map $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0791462455 A Culture of Sufism is the much awaited and revised version of Dina Le Gall’s 1992 Princeton dissertation on the development of the Naqshbandi order in the Ottoman Empire. She sets forth her thesis within the context of two approaches to Sufism and Sufi orders in the early modern and modern period. The first argues that Sufism was in terminal decline from the medieval period and only enjoyed a brief revival in the neo-Sufism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The second holds that the traditional structure of a Sufi order with its emphasis on holy men and charisma had little hope of survival in the modern period. Le Gall offers a corrective to these two approaches by considering the formative period of one Sufi order that emerged after the medieval period. She opens a window to a new understanding of one of the most prolific and enduring of all the Sufi orders, the Naqshbandiyya, as it spread from its birthplace http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

Book Reviews

Download PDF
2 pages

Book Reviews

Abstract

Book Reviews 211 A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450–1700 DINA LEGALL, 2005 [SUNY Series in Medieval Middle East History] Albany: State University of New York Press xii, 286 pp., map $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0791462455 A Culture of Sufism is the much awaited and revised version of Dina Le Gall’s 1992 Princeton dissertation on the development of the Naqshbandi order in the Ottoman Empire. She sets forth her thesis within the context of two approaches to Sufism...
Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/book-reviews-R6awi0p526
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1473-348X
eISSN
0950-3110
DOI
10.1080/09503110600839047
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Book Reviews 211 A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450–1700 DINA LEGALL, 2005 [SUNY Series in Medieval Middle East History] Albany: State University of New York Press xii, 286 pp., map $45.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0791462455 A Culture of Sufism is the much awaited and revised version of Dina Le Gall’s 1992 Princeton dissertation on the development of the Naqshbandi order in the Ottoman Empire. She sets forth her thesis within the context of two approaches to Sufism and Sufi orders in the early modern and modern period. The first argues that Sufism was in terminal decline from the medieval period and only enjoyed a brief revival in the neo-Sufism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The second holds that the traditional structure of a Sufi order with its emphasis on holy men and charisma had little hope of survival in the modern period. Le Gall offers a corrective to these two approaches by considering the formative period of one Sufi order that emerged after the medieval period. She opens a window to a new understanding of one of the most prolific and enduring of all the Sufi orders, the Naqshbandiyya, as it spread from its birthplace

Journal

Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2006

There are no references for this article.