Western Sufism

Introduction Part I | Premodern Intercultural Transfers 1. Neoplatonism and Emanationism Plotinus: The Key Emanation Explained Neoplatonism Spreads 2. Islamic Emanationism Arab Neoplatonism The First Sufis Sufi Classics 3. Jewish and Christian Emanationism Jewish Neoplatonism Jewish Sufism Latin Emanationism Conclusion to Part I Part II | Imagining Sufism, 1480- 1899 4. Dervishes Angels and Deviants The View from France Sufism as Mystical Theology 5. Deism and Pantheism The prisca theologia in the Renaissance Universalism: Guillaume Postel and the Jesuits Deism Demonstrated by Arab and Turk Pantheism and Anti-Exotericism 6. Universalist Sufism Sufism as Esoteric Pantheism Perennialism and Universalism in India The Dabistan and After 7. Dervishes Epicurean and Fanatical Dervishes in Drama, Painting, and Verse The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Fighting Dervishes Conclusion to Part II Part III | The Establishment of Sufism in the West, 1910- 1933 8. Transcendentalism, Theosophy, and Sufism Transcendentalism and the Missouri Platonists The Theosophical Society and Carl- Henrik Bjerregaard Ivan Aguéli, the Western Sufi 9. Toward the One: Inayat Khan and the Sufi Movement Inayat Khan Visits America The Sufi Message is Spread The Continuation of the Sufi Movement 10. Tradition and Consciousness René Guénon and the Traditionalists George Gurdjieff and Consciousness The Early Years of John G. Bennett Conclusion to Part III Part IV | The Development of Sufism in the New Age 11. Polarization Toward Islam Reorientation with Meher Baba The Travels of John G. Bennett The Maryamiyya and the Oglala Sioux 12. Idries Shah and Sufi Psychology Shah and the Gurdjieff Tradition Shah's Sufism Followers and Opponents 13. Sufism Meets the New Age Traditionalism and the New Age The Sufi Movement Conserved Sufi Sam in San Francisco Vilayat and the Sufi Order International Fazal and Mystical Warfare 14. Islamic Sufism Ian Dallas and the Darqawiyya Ibn Arabi and Beshara The Murabitun and Sufi Jihad John G. Bennett at Sherborne Conclusion to Part IV 15. Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index