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- Title
Adventures and Misadventures of the New Sufis: Islamic Spiritual Groups in Contemporary Malaysia.
- Authors
Bousfield, John
- Abstract
Rather than focusing on the Malaysian dakwah movement in general, attention is given to the specific appeal of contemporary Sufi or spiritually inclined Muslim groups. It is argued that their appeal is best characterized in more positive and dynamic terms than is often the case. Their position vis-à-vis ‘orthodoxy’ recapitulates that of earlier Sufi movements. Particular attention is given to how the teachings and practices become labelled ‘deviant’ and what consequences follow. The discussion draws sometimes upon the experience of the author in auto-biographical fashion to uncover a ‘politics of versions’.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; SOCIAL movements; RELIGIOUS movements; RELIGIOUS groups; SUFISM; ISLAMIC mysticism; MUSLIMS; DA'WAH (Islam); ISLAMIC missions
- Publication
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 1993, Vol 8, Issue 2, p328
- ISSN
0217-9520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1355/SJ8-2F