Mysticisme

New Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Turkish. [xvi], 244 p. Tasavvufun olusumu [= Sufism: The formative period]. Translated by Nagihan Dogan. This book is a comprehensive historical overview of the formative period of sufism, the major mystical tradition in islam, from the ninth to the twelfth century ce based on a fresh reading of the primary sources and integrating the findings of recent scholarship on the subject, the author presents a unified narrative of sufisms historical development within an innovative analytical framework Karamustafa gives a new account of the emergence of mystical currents in islam during the ninth century and traces the rapid spread of iraq-based sufism to other regions of the islamic world and its fusion with indigenous mystical movements elsewhere, most notably the malr cultural context.