Sufism and the "modern" in Islam / edited by Martin van Bruinessen and Julia Day Howell.

Papers originally presented at an international conference held in Bogor, West Java, 4-6 Sept. 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-352) and index.

Sufism and the 'modern' in Islam / Julia Day Howell and Martin van Bruinessen -- What is a Sufi order? revisiting the concept through a case study of the Khalwatiyya in contemporary Egypt / Rachida Chih -- Sufism and modernity in Turkey : from the authenticity of experience to the practice of discipline / Brian Silverstein -- Elements of neo-traditional Sufism in Iran / Matthijs van den Bos -- Saint and Sufi in contemporary Mali / Benjamin F. Soares -- Saints, politicians and Sufi bureaucrats : mysticism and politics in Indonesia's New Order / Martin van Bruinessen -- Sufi fundamentalism between India and the Middle East / Itzchak Weismann -- Reformist Sufism of the Tablighi Jamaʻat : the case of the Meos of Mewat, India / Yoginder Sikand -- National crisis and the representation of traditional Sufism in Indonesia : the periodicals Salafy and Sufi / Michael Laffan -- Sufi modernities in contemporary Senegal : religious dynamics between the local and the global / Leonardo A. Villalâon -- Intimate disciples in the modern world : the creation of translocal amity among south Asian Sufis in Britain / Pnina Werbner -- Modernity and Islamic spirituality in Indonesia's new Sufi networks / Julia Day Howell -- God by all means ... eclectic faith and Sufi resurgence among the Moroccan bourgeoisie / Patrick Haenni and Raphaèel Voix -- Development of a modern western Sufism / Celia A. Genn -- Contemporary Sufism and current social theory / John O. Voll.