Routledge Sufi Series
About the Book Series
The Routledge Sufi Series provides short introductions to a variety of facets of the subject, which are accessible both to the general reader and the student and scholar in the field. Each book will be either a synthesis of existing knowledge or a distinct contribution to, and extension of, knowledge of the particular topic. The two major underlying principles of the Series are sound scholarship and readability.
The Persian Sufi Tradition and Shams al-Dīn Lāhījī: Sufi Metamorphosis
1st Edition
By Morokoth So
June 15, 2026
The Persian Sufi Tradition and Shams al-Dīn Lāhījī: Sufi Metamorphosis offers a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and spiritual transformations that reshaped Persian Sufism during the late medieval period in Iran. Focusing on the pivotal era of the Timurid and Aq Qoyunlu dynasties (1447–1501...
Sufism in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Europe: Entanglements in Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Cem Kara, Evelyn Reuter, Zsófia Turóczy
February 27, 2026
Sufism in Ottoman and Post‑Ottoman Europe: Entanglements in Past and Present offers the first in‑depth, regionally nuanced study of Sufi networks, legacies, and transformations across Southeastern Europe from the Ottoman period through the contemporary post‑socialist era. Spanning multiple ...
The Special Status of Muhammad: Shihab al-Din al-Qastallani’s The Divine Bounties
1st Edition
By Sigalit Chacham
September 26, 2025
This book examines the special status of the Prophet Muḥammad, as described by the Cairene Sufi mystic Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qasṭallānī (d. 1517). It examines spiritual, material, and theological aspects of love for the Prophet as expressed in his al-Mawāhib al-laduniyya bil-minaḥ al-muḥammadiyya (“The ...
Sufi Women and Mystics: Models of Sanctity, Erudition, and Political Leadership
1st Edition
By Minlib Dallh
April 14, 2025
This book focuses on women’s important contribution to Sufism by analyzing the lives and seminal contributions of six mystic Sufi women to Islamic spirituality. To help reverse the sidelining of Sufi women in the recorded academic literature, the author has selected a representative sample of ...
Love in Sufi Literature: Ibn 'Ajiba's Understanding of the Divine Word
1st Edition
By Omneya Ayad
December 18, 2024
Focused on Aḥmad Ibn ‘Ajība – an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qur’ānic exegesis – this book engages critically with his theory of divine love to elucidate his impact on the wider field of Qur’ānic scholarship. The principal source of analysis is Ibn...
Sufism in Ottoman Damascus: Religion, Magic, and the Eighteenth-Century Networks of the Holy
1st Edition
By Nikola Pantić
December 18, 2024
Sufism in Ottoman Damascus analyzes thaumaturgical beliefs and practices prevalent among Muslims in eighteenth-century Ottoman Syria. The study focuses on historical beliefs in baraka, which religious authorities often interpreted as Allah’s grace, and the alleged Sufi-ulamaic role in distributing ...
Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul
1st Edition
By Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, M. Brett Wilson (Editor and Translator)
November 28, 2024
This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba – a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu – offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul. Inspired by Karaosmanoğlu’s personal experiences with ...
Sufism in Morocco's Religious Politics: Refractions of Piety and Iḥsān
1st Edition
By John C. Thibdeau
November 28, 2024
This book outlines the role of Sufism in Moroccan politics in the twenty-first century through a comparative study of contemporary Sufi organizations. The author begins his analysis by highlighting the strategies employed by the Moroccan state over the past twenty years, aimed at regulating and ...
Walāya in the Formative Period of Shi'ism and Sufism: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By Shayesteh Ghofrani
October 08, 2024
Focused on Shi’ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walāya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide range of relationships with other theological ideas, chiefly in relation to the notion of authority. The book offers a ...
Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India: Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb’s Lament of the Nightingale and Ṭarīqa-yi Khāliṣ Muḥammadiyya
1st Edition
By Neda Saghaee
May 27, 2024
Sufism in Eighteenth-Century India focuses on one particular treasure from surviving Persian manuscripts in India, Nāla-yi ʿAndalīb, written by Muḥammad Nāṣir ʿAndalīb (d. 1759), a Naqshbandī Mujaddidī mystical thinker. It explores the convergence and interrelation of the text with its context to ...
State and Sufism in Iraq: Building a “Moderate Islam” Under Saddam Husayn
1st Edition
By David Jordan
September 25, 2023
State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the Iraqi Baʿth regime’s (r. 1968–2003) entanglement with Sufis and of Sunnī Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman period until 2003 and beyond. For far too long, the secular and authoritarian Baʿth regime has been reduced to the ...
Sufism and the Perfect Human: From Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī
1st Edition
By Fitzroy Morrissey
September 30, 2021
Studying the history of the notion of the ‘Perfect Human’ (al-insān al-kāmil), this book investigates a key idea in the history of Sufism. First discussed by Ibn ‘Arabī and later treated in greater depth by al-Jīlī, the idea left its mark on later Islamic mystical, metaphysical, and political ...