Sufism in Europe

Islam, Esotericism and the New Age

Francesco Piraino

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Edinburgh University Press
31 July 2024

Islamic theology; Sufism & Islamic mysticism

Series: Advances in the Study of Islam

Sufism, the spiritual, mystical, and esoteric dimension of Islam, is experiencing a renewal in the 21st century. Charismatic Sufi masters have been able to revitalise their language, attracting new disciples and going beyond their cultural-geographic framework. This book describes the development of Sufism in Western Europe, particularly in France and Italy, through extended empirical research based on participant observation in four Sufi orders. The author illustrates the different forms of hybridisation between the Islamic-Sufi tradition and Western esoteric discourses, in particular the Gunonian-Traditionalist and the New Age discourse. These hybridisations often involve the creation of new doctrines, rituals, and organizational structures, and produce different universalist discourses, which imply different Sufi politics in Europe, such as a lack of interest due to an imminent eschatology, civic engagement, and metapolitical elitism.

By: Francesco Piraino
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399536097
ISBN 10: 1399536095
Series: Advances in the Study of Islam
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 31 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Francesco Piraino is Research Associate at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School and the director of the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations and Spiritualities at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice. Piraino is a sociologist of religion, culture, and art. He obtained his PhD in Sociology in 2016 at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at KU Leuven. Piraino works on spirituality, esotericism, mysticism, and the relationship between art and religion. He has recently published Le soufisme en Europe: islam, ésotérisme et new age (Karthala, 2023) and edited Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends (with Marco Pasi and Egil Asprem, Routledge 2022).

Reviews for Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age

Through closely observed case studies of four contemporary Sufi orders in Italy and France, Francesco Piraino reveals remarkable cross-fertilisations of ritual, doctrine and organisation. The resulting picture shows a lively Euro-Sufism shaped by the selective absorption of New Age and Western esoteric teachings no less than debates with secular humanists and Islamists. --Nile Green, author of Sufism: A Global History