ePub Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda by From Richard Jackson in History

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This is a detailed description of the various Sufi orders and movements which entered into the Balkans; the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Eastern Europe following the Ottoman conquests. Many of the Sufis came from Christian societies; principally from an Eastern Orthodox background; but others; such as the Bosnians; from churches that were accused or suspected of heterodoxy of belief and of antinomianism. These beliefs; together with pre-Christian beliefs; influenced by Manicheanism; Dualism and pantheism; left their mark on Sufi Islam. The book concentrates on the Bosnians; Bulgarians; Albanians and Tatars. Their Sufism reflects their national aspirations; and their writings fuse their mysticism; national faith and folklore in a Sufism which is quite distinct from that in other regions of the Muslim world.