A Culture of Sufism

A Culture of SufismUnearths the history of the Naqshbandiyya, one of the most widespread and enduring Sufi brotherhoods. A Culture of Sufism opens a window to a new understanding of one of the most prolific and enduring of all the Sufi brotherhoods, the Naqshbandiyya, as it spread from its birthplace in central Asia to Iran, Anatolia, Arabia, and the Balkans between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on original sources and carefully aware of the power of

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