Steinfels, Amina M.

Knowledge before action Islamic learning and Sufi practice in the life of Sayyid Jal�al al-D�i n Bukh�ar�i Makhd�um-i Jah�aniy�an / [electronic resource] : Amina M. Steinfels. - Columbia [S.C.] : University of South Carolina Press, 2012. - xiii, 248 p. : maps. - Studies in comparative religion . - Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The education of a Sufi shaykh. Initiation into the Sufi path -- Pilgrimage and travel -- Teaching and practice. Book-learning and Islamic law -- Ritual and practice -- Money, non-Muslims, women, and saints -- Served by the inhabitants of the world. A public figure -- Legacy.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2011.
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9781611170733 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781611171945 (e-book)




Ma�k�hd�um Jah�aniy�an Jah�a�n Gasht, Jal�aludd�in, d. 1383.


Sufis--Biography.
Muslim scholars--Biography.
Sufism--History.


Electronic books.

BP80.M29 / S74 2012eb

297.4092 B