"The book 'Gulag Miracles: Sufis and Stalinist Repression in Kazakhstan', represents the first detailed study of Muslim religious responses to totalitarian repression during the first half of the 20th century, and is therefore of interest to specialists in Islamic Studies, Relig…
The first study of Ibn 'Alwan and the first comprehensive analysis of medieval Yemeni mysticism in Western scholarship, Religion and Mysticism in Early Islam is essential reading for all those interested in mysticism, early Islam, Sufism, Yemen, and religion and history more gen…
Scholar, mystic and visionary, Ibn 'Alwan lived through the transition from Ayyubid to Rasulid rule in thirteenth-century Yemen. He was well known in his time for his critique of the ruling elites and their governance, and left behind a substantial body of writings on Islamic my…
The first study of Ibn 'Alwan and the first comprehensive analysis of medieval Yemeni mysticism in Western scholarship, Religion and Mysticism in Early Islam is essential reading for all those interested in mysticism, early Islam, Sufism, Yemen, and religion and history more gen…
Scholar, mystic and visionary, Ibn 'Alwan lived through the transition from Ayyubid to Rasulid rule in thirteenth-century Yemen. He was well known in his time for his critique of the ruling elites and their governance, and left behind a substantial body of writings on Islamic my…
The Fusus al-Hikam is acknowledged to be a summary statement of the sufi metaphysics of the "Greatest Master", Ibn 'Arabi (d.1240). It is also recognised that the Fusus is a work of great complexity both in its ideas and its style; and, over the centuries, numerous commentaries …