This book explores the lives of Sufi masters who functioned as embodiments of Islamic sainthood and left a lasting mark on the land. These figures lived in the ancient cities of Syria and their surrounding towns and villages during a formative period in the social history of Syrian Sufism and the spiritual tradition of Islam.
After Islamic theology was given a place at universities in German-speaking areas, certain issues in the Islamic theology and religious pedagogy took on greater importance and moved to the forefront of discussion. A collection of various articles by the author, this book focuses on developing an understanding of Islam that is context-sensitive and takes both the Islamic tradition and the new Eu…
The whole material of this book was scattered in many places. The writer tried to collect it to be one draft of the book in 2010. Unfortunately, the laptop in which the final draft prepared lost coincidently. It is until this pandemic covid-19 time, the writer realize that the lost final draft can be traced back from the scattered material in many different files. Although, it takes time, the b…