Promotional Information

Offers the treatment of Sufism in the context of modern Muslim communities. This title broadens the purview of the study of Sufism to look at the subject right across international boundaries, from Canada to Brazil, and from Denmark to the UK and USA. It is suitable for various scholars and students of modern Islam.

About the Author

Catharina Raudvere is Professor of the History of Religions at Copenhagen University, and the author of The Book and the Roses: Sufi Women, Visibility and Zikir in Contemporary Istanbul (I.B.Tauris, 2003). Leif Stenberg is Associate Professor of Islamology at Lund University, and co-editor, with Birgit Shaebler, of Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion and Modernity.