Beshara and Ibn Arabi – A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in the M

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Author: Suha Taji-Farouki
Publisher: Anqa
Year: 2009
Pages: 480
Printed: UK
ISBN: 978-1-905937-26-4
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: New
Weight: 822gr.
Description from the publisher: Investigating sufi-inspired spirituality in the modern world, this interdisciplinary volume focuses on Beshara, a spiritual movement that originated in Britain in the 1970s.

Beshara’s main inspiration is the Andalusian mystic Muhyi al-Din Ibn ‘Arabi (d.1240), possibly the most influential thinker of the second half of Islamic history. Ibn ‘Arabi’s teaching was brought to Britain by Bulent Rauf (d.1987), a descendant of the Ottoman elite, and discovered there by counterculture youth searching for new spiritual ways. Beshara is their joint legacy.

The first detailed analysis of the adoption and adaptation of Ibn ‘Arabi’s heritage by non-Muslims in the West, Beshara and Ibn ‘Arabi is a study of the movement’s history, teachings and practices. It explores the interface between sufism and the New Age, and the broader contemporary encounter between Islam and the West. Investigating from a global perspective the impact of cultural transformations associated with modernization and globalization on religion, this timely volume concludes by tracing possible futures of sufi spirituality both in the West and in the Muslim world.

 

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Weight .750 kg