Sufism in the West

John Hinnells is former Professor and founding chair of the Department for the Study of Religion at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. His main research interest is in Zoroastrianism and has also edited the New Penguin Dictionary of Religions and the New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions.Jamal Malik is Chair of Religious Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His areas of interest and research are Islamic Religion, Social History of Muslim South Asia, Colonialism and Political Islam, Islamic Mysticism and Muslims in the West.

• Introduction 1. Literary Productions of Western Sufi Movements 2. Persian Sufism in the Contemporary West: Reflections on the Ni’ Matullahi Diaspora 3. The Evolution of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi: Sulaymancis in Germany 4. Third Wave Sufism in America and the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship 5. Transnational Sufism: The Haqqaniyya 6. Aspects of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order in North America 7. Seekers on the Path: Different Ways of Being a Sufi in Britain 8. Learning the Lessons from the Neo-Revivalist and Wahhabi Movement: The Counterattack of the New Sufi Movements in the UK 9. Popular Islam in Northern Pakistan and its Reconstruction in Urban Britain