SSEASN - Sufism in the Premodern Islamic World

Drawing on a broad cross-section of theoretical and methodological perspectives this course will interrogate key contemporary works that engage the Sufi experience in the period before 1750. We will read works by Shahab Ahmed, Nile Green, Carl Ernst, Richard Eaton, Kathryn Babayan, Huseyin Yilmaz, Azfar Moin, Vincent Cornell, Aditya Behl, Shahzad Bashir, Kishwar Rizvi, and Ahmet Karamustafa.