Product Description: Sufism is often overlooked in scholarly consideration of the politics of the Muslim world. The articles comprising this volume consolidate thinking about the political dimension of Sufism and offer new horizons for scholarly reflection on the role of Sufism in Muslim society...read more

Product Description: This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries). Different voices representing different social groups savants, litterateurs, religious scholars, state officials all brought their particular conception of knowledge to bear on the formation of the various branches of knowledge known to Islamic civilization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)