The Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and Activism in a Worldwide Sufi Tradition - Paperback

by Itzchak Weismann (Author)

This volume seeks to present a broad picture of the evolution of the ideas and organizational forms of the Naqshbandi order throughout its history.

Author Biography

Itzchak Weismann is senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern history, University of Haifa, Israel. His research interests focus on modern Islam, particularly interrelations between Sufism and fundamentalist and radical movements.