Nature of Sufism

Milad Milani is a Senior Lecturer in religious studies at Western Sydney University.

• 1 ‘Introduction’ to Sufism 2 The Journey Through Islam: a phenomenological analysis of the Sufi tariqa and the experience of the ‘master’ 3 ‘Being Sufi’ 4 Jesus as Sign 5 Absent Christ, present God 6 Break with the past: transgressing restrictions of the category and scholarship on ‘mysticism’ 7 Conclusion: The ontological question for Sufism

The Nature of Sufism is a unique contribution to an old discussion. In bringing Heidegger to bear on Sufism, Milad Milani has created something that is part history, part philosophy, and sometimes almost mystical—though what that term, too, might mean is questioned as well as clarified. This radical and fascinating book covers a lot of ground: Sufism and Heidegger, of course, but also Junayd and Ibn Taymiyya, Corbin and the Persianate, love, and even Jesus. Challenging and well worthwhile.—Mark Sedgwick, Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University, author of Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age (2016), and co-editor of Global Sufism: Boundaries, Narratives and Practices(2019).