By Lloyd Ridgeon
Of direction those generalisations require extra nuanced research, and this publication presents a couple of case reviews from round the Islamic global to unpack the complicated courting among the 2. the range of the case experiences that target Islamic teams in India, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey and South East Europe replicate the multiplicity of relationships that exist among the Salafis and Sufis. the explicit case stories are framed by way of an advent that gives crucial ancient heritage and definitions of the phrases, and in addition via basic experiences of the Sufi–Salafi dating which permit the reader to target the massive photo.
This may be the first publication to enquire the connection among Sufism and Salafism in this type of large style, and contains chapters on "traditional" Sufis, in addition to from those that give some thought to that Sufism and Salafism aren't inevitably contradictory.
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