Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan

Based on long-term ethnographic field research among multiple Sufi communities in different urban areas of Afghanistan, the book examines navigational strategies employed by Sufi leaders over the past four decades to weather periods of instability and persecution, showing how they adapted to changing conditions in novel ways that crafted Sufism as a force in the civil sphere.

• | Author: Annika Schmeding
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 28, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781503637535
• | ISBN-10: 1503637530