Alexandre Papas

Sufi Institutions

Beth Citron

Rahil Dawut

Collects evocative and ethereal photographs of Islamic holy sites as taken by the photographer over the course of a decade spent on journeys to China's limited-access Xinjiang region, complementing her images of centuries-old shrines and tombs with professional essays that place photographic content in historical and modern contexts.

Living Shrines of Uyghur China

Thibaut d'Hubert

Jāmī in Regional Contexts is a study of the reception of the polymath ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492)'s works in various regional traditions throughout the Islamicate world.

The Reception of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World, ca. 9th/15th-14th/20th Century

Jāmī in Regional Contexts

Thierry Zarcone

Thomas Welsford

Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.

Hajj Routes and Pious Visits between Central Asia and the Hijaz.

Central Asian Pilgrims.

In Thus Spake the Dervish Alexandre Papas traces the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years.

Sufism, Language, and the Religious Margins in Central Asia, 1400-1900

Thus Spake the Dervish

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

Hagiography, Sanctity, and Family in the Muslim World

Family Portraits with Saints

This handbook describes the social and economic underpinnings of Islamic mysticism across centuries and geographical regions, paying special attention to the institutional dimensions of Sufism and complex relations between Sufis and the societies in which they played a wide variety of important roles.

Alexandre Papas

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