Book Contributors

• Editor - Clinton Bennett ([email protected] - cbennett) 'State University of New York, New Palz'
• Editor - Sarwar Alam ([email protected] - salam) 'University of Arkansas'
• Author - Sayed Hassan Akhlaq Hussaini ([email protected] - shussaini) 'George Washington University'
• Author - Milad Milani ([email protected] - miladmilani) 'Senior Lecturer, Western Sydney University'
• Author - Charles M. Ramsey ([email protected] - cramsey) 'Forman Christian College, Lahore '
• Author - Heon C. Kim ([email protected] - hckim) 'East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania'
• Author - Stephen Schwartz ([email protected] - sschwartz) ' Center for Islamic Pluralism, Washington, DC'
• Author - Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh ([email protected] - Singh257183837) 'Colby College, Maine'

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Section	Chapter	Authors
Preliminaries
	Tables and Maps	Clinton Bennett, Sarwar Alam
	Abbreviations	Clinton Bennett, Sarwar Alam
	Acknowledgements	Clinton Bennett, Sarwar Alam
Introduction
	Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy: Contexts, Comparisons and Critiques	Clinton Bennett
Section I: Multi-contextual
	1. Sufis, Saints and Politics in Islam: An Historical Survey	Clinton Bennett
Section II: European/Euro Asian Contexts (Kosovo, Albania and Turkey)
	2. Sufism as a Working Spirit in Globalization and Pluralism: The Case of the Hizmet Movement, a Turkey-oriented Global Islamic Network	Heon Kim
	3. A Paradox of Political Mysticism: The Bektashi Sufi Order as an Islamic Esoteric Community and Factor in Albanian National History	Stephen Schwartz
Section III: A Middle Eastern Context (Iran)
	4. Sufi Politics in the Contemporary West: The Role and Definition of Sufism in the Works of Javad Nurbakhsh (1926-2008)	Milad Milani
Section IV: South Asian Contexts: Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan
	5. Anti-Saint or Anti-Shrine?: Tracing Deoband's Disdain for the Sufi in Pakistan	Charles Ramsey
	6. Sufis as Shapers of Pluralist Political Culture: The Examples of Bangladesh and Indonesia	Clinton Bennett
	7. In Search of God, In Search of Humanity: Vilayet-e-Mutlaka of Hazrat Delaor Husayn Maizbhandari	Sarwar Alam
Section V: Literary & Theoretical Underpinnings
	8. Two Beloved Sufi Poets of the Punjab: A Case of 'Hearing without Listening'	Nikky-Guninder Singh
	9. Looking Inside the Heart: The Universal Appeal of God and Humanity as Reflected in Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam and Maulana Rumi’s Mathnawi Manaw	Sayed Hussaini
Conclusion
	“Corporate Islam” versus Sufi Islam and the Articulation of the Present	Sarwar Alam
End Matter
	Bibliography	Clinton Bennett, Sarwar Alam
	Index	Clinton Bennett, Sarwar Alam

Reviews

Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy succeeds in exploring the often-sidelined political contribution of Sufism. The chapters clearly answer questions such as what role Sufism plays in promoting pluralism, secularism, and democracy. The book examines Sufi teachings for ensuring human rights and gender equality. ... this book works well for those looking to get a basic idea about the political engagement of Sufis in modern democracies.
Reading Religion

For calling our attention to examples of Sufis in Turkey, Albania, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia who bring the resources of the Sufi tradition to bear on modern questions of governance and social cohesion, Bennett and Alam are to be commended.
Journal of Church and State

The case studies examine the role of everyday Sufism in regions that often do not receive scholarly attention and this attribute is one of the volume’s significant contributions to the field. Here is a book that gathers various experts to address the manifestation of Sufism in embodied realities of political mobilization and national projects as much as piety, philosophy, theology, and orthodoxy. The book is a must-read for scholars of Sufism and Islam.
Religious Studies Review