01521cam a2200277 a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007302000380009004000180012804100130014605000250015908200140018410000200019824000370021824501070025526000470036230000410040949000360045050400600048650501880054652004700073465000120120470000270121616135350AUA.120160105102329.0100315s2010    inuab    b    001 0 eng    a  2010011130  a9781935493105 (pbk. : alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdDLC1 aenghfre00aBP 189b.G28713 201000a297.42221 aGeoffroy, Eric.10aInitiation au soufisme.lEnglish10aIntroduction to Sufism :bthe inner path of Islam /cby Éric Geoffroy ; translated by Roger Gaetani.  aBloomington, Ind. :bWorld Wisdom,cc2010.  axvii, 219 p. :bill., maps ;c23 cm.0 aThe perennial philosophy series  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219) and index.  aFundamentals --
Sufism and Islam --
Sufism in Islamic culture: historical perspective --
Sufism as it is lived --
Sufism and interreligious openness --
Sufism yesterday, Sufism today.  aFrom Rumi's whirling dervishes in Turkey over 700 years ago, to circles of silent mystics in the West today, this book reveals the history and practices of Sufism, the ancient but still active system of Islamic mysticism which has long been the spiritual current in Islam that counterbalances fundamentalism. Eric Geoffroy is an authority on Sufism, and he shows us this increasingly popular contemplative dimension of Islam, which is little understood in the West. 0aSufism.1 aGaetani, Roger,d1954-