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Saints and Sons

其他書名	The Making and Remaking of the Rashīdi Aḥmadi Sufi Order, 1799-2000
出版	Brill, 2005
主題	Architecture / Interior Design / GeneralHistory / Middle East / GeneralReligion / Islam / HistoryReligion / Islam / SufiSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Islamic Studies
ISBN	90041401319789004140134
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1F_YAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the order, and the limiting effect on even the greatest shaykhs of their followers' expectations.