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Investigating Sufi-inspired spirituality in the modern world, this interdisciplinary text combines cultural study with solid data to provide a comprehensive study on how the teachings of Ibn `Arabi have been adopted and adapted by Muslims and non-Muslims. This book explores Beshara's emergence and evolution, its approach to spiritual education, the origins of its spiritual teacher, its major teachings and practices, and its projection of Ibn `Arabi. Both rigorous and very timely, this study looks to the areas of cultural exchange between East and West and highlights commonalities in the various historical changes both societies have undergone.

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""A marvellous book ... historically and ethnographically well informed, with equally well-informed use of theory - handled with very considerable sensitivity - and lucidly written."" Paul Heelas, author of The New Age Movement and The Spiritual Revolution ""Empathetic in approach and immensely well-documented, this is an exemplary work. Its great importance for akbarian studies is its discussion of the way in which Ibn 'Arabi's teachings have been received and transformed in the modern world."" Michel Chodkiewicz, author of Seal of the Saints and An Ocean Without Shore ""A masterful and multifaceted study. This important book opens out to provide a much-needed critique of the sociology of Islam in the age of globalization."" Victoria Rowe Holbrook, author of The Unreadable Shores of Love and Beauty and Love ""The primary reference work on Beshara will be this thoughtful, intelligent and immensely well-researched book. We can learn a great deal from it."" Peter Young, Principal of the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education

"""A marvellous book ... historically and ethnographically well informed, with equally well-informed use of theory - handled with very considerable sensitivity - and lucidly written."" Paul Heelas, author of The New Age Movement and The Spiritual Revolution ""Empathetic in approach and immensely well-documented, this is an exemplary work. Its great importance for akbarian studies is its discussion of the way in which Ibn 'Arabi's teachings have been received and transformed in the modern world."" Michel Chodkiewicz, author of Seal of the Saints and An Ocean Without Shore ""A masterful and multifaceted study. This important book opens out to provide a much-needed critique of the sociology of Islam in the age of globalization."" Victoria Rowe Holbrook, author of The Unreadable Shores of Love and Beauty and Love ""The primary reference work on Beshara will be this thoughtful, intelligent and immensely well-researched book. We can learn a great deal from it."" Peter Young, Principal of the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education"

A marvellous book ... historically and ethnographically well informed, with equally well-informed use of theory - handled with very considerable sensitivity - and lucidly written. Paul Heelas, author of The New Age Movement and The Spiritual Revolution Empathetic in approach and immensely well-documented, this is an exemplary work. Its great importance for akbarian studies is its discussion of the way in which Ibn 'Arabi's teachings have been received and transformed in the modern world. Michel Chodkiewicz, author of Seal of the Saints and An Ocean Without Shore A masterful and multifaceted study. This important book opens out to provide a much-needed critique of the sociology of Islam in the age of globalization. Victoria Rowe Holbrook, author of The Unreadable Shores of Love and Beauty and Love The primary reference work on Beshara will be this thoughtful, intelligent and immensely well-researched book. We can learn a great deal from it. Peter Young, Principal of the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education

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Suha Taji-Farouki is a lecturer in modern Islam at the institute of Arab and Islamic studies at the University of Exeter, and senior associate at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She is the author of Islamic Thought in the 20th Century and Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur’an.

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