Overview
Investigating Sufi-inspired spirituality in the modern world, this interdisciplinary text combines cultural study with solid data to provide a comprehensive study on how the teachings of Ibn ‘Arabi have been adopted and adapted by Muslims and non-Muslims. This book explores Beshara's emergence and evolution, its approach to spiritual education, the origins of its spiritual teacher, its major teachings and practices, and its projection of Ibn ‘Arabi. Both rigorous and very timely, this study looks to the areas of cultural exchange between East and West and highlights commonalities in the various historical changes both societies have undergone.
Author Biography
Suha Taji-Farouki is a lecturer in modern Islam at the institute of Arab and Islamic studies at the University of Exeter, and senior associate at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She is the author of Islamic Thought in the 20th Century and Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur’an.